16-4 SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



fly in comparatively shallow water, the conditions are thus 

 more favorable for the fly-fisher. 



The hypothesis, then, that game fishes feed mostly at 

 night and rest or sleep by day, and that it is only the few 

 that failed to fully satisfy their appetites the night before 

 that are apt to respond to the Aviles of the angler, is quite 

 a reasonable one, and one that will account for most of the 

 " bad luck " of the angler. 



