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very pleasant change, more especially since the adop- 

 tion of the floating lure, and for the last three years 

 no other than dry-fly equipment has troubled me when 

 preparing for the expedition, the floating fly not only 

 holding its own, but having been the means of captur- 

 ing the largest sea-trout of the season (with the 

 exception of one) since it was adopted six years 

 ago." 



" Considering the number of fishermen who for a 

 period of about three months fish these Harris lochs 

 in the orthodox manner, and that my use of the float- 

 ing fly has never exceeded three weeks during that 

 period, it . appears well worth while to adopt its use 

 much more generally, and not alone for sea-trout 

 lochs, but experimentally on lochs and lakes in general 



throughout the British Islands." 



"A. C. Poole." 



