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it down, and, putting the baited hook on it near 

 the middle, I coil the line in loose coils around on 

 the chip. Now launch it on the stream, so that it 

 floats down the middle ; hold up your rod, and guide 

 it, which you can easily do as the line uncoils. 

 Be alert ; it is getting near the end of the tether : 

 for at once, as the chip passes from under the bait 

 and it falls on the water, I expect that you will 

 get a bite. You cannot see the chip or bait, but 

 — hurrah, you can feel the hooked fish ! Draw 

 him up quickly ; he is not the largest to be found 

 there. Search for another chip, and by the time it 

 is all arranged there will be yet a bigger trout 

 waiting. In summer a leaf is as good as a chip of 

 wood, and sometimes neither is needed, and a 

 piece of quill or white stick of wood will act quite 

 well as a float, or bob, to carry your bait to the spot 

 you are aiming at. 



If you are fishing a brook such as the one we 

 have been " supposin'," and have a friend with 

 you, you must not have him alongside you, or 

 even within talking distance, as I have been ; but 

 if possible, one fish up and the other down, both 

 returning to meet at the point from whence you 

 started. If, however, you want to fish down, pull 



