A GOOD DAY AT DORADO. 
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single hook at the top and a half-ounce bullet. 
There was nothing at the beginning of the 
stream, and I fished down steadily, lengthening 
my line and 
pitching the 
spoon well into 
the tumbled 
water on the far 
side. It was 
shallow, rocky 
and swirly. In 
such a stream, 
shallow and 
also uncertain, 
where the spoon 
is caught by 
violent back¬ 
washes and 
eddies, you must 
cast more down 
than across, and 
start reeling in 
fast at once to 
keep clear of 
the bottom. 
When the 
spoon was about 
twenty yards 
down, and being 
reeled at full speed into the quick current, a 
fish took with a mighty bang, and shot down- 
