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shallow of the grateful branches, rubbing himself in the sandy or shingly bottom, and sucking in the flies which, from the shallowness of the stream, seem to fall directly into his open jaws. Shallow though the water, and trivial the current, if you throw directly up stream, and well under the bushes, you are sure of your fish. It is often useful to flip your beetle under these bushes, by holding it in your left finger and thumb till your rod is well bent, and then suddenly releasing it ; the rod, by its spring, will start the beetle straight as an arrow from the bowj don^t fear a splash; I pan assure you, if you are concealed, which, by throwing straight up stream, you must be, the splash, great though it be, will only wake up the trout and attract his You cannot suppose that a cockattention. chafer would tumble into the water from a tree, without a splash your beetles are as large or larger, and the splash as natural. It is not well to look on these beetles as something which the trout has only to see to insure his wanting to With the more delicate May fly, one devour. must ever remember that the bait is alone useful from its natural character to tempt the trout, and the more the bait is fairly exposed, and the more time as a general rule the trout has to catch it, the greater are your probabilities of taking the fish, provided the means or instruments of your offering are entirely concealed; hence you dap it in and out of the water in quiet still places, and even pull it up and down several times over :