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I have ever had I took all the fish, eight each day, 

 between twelve and two p.m. Both were bright, 

 warm days, and the water was at a moderate 

 pitch and clear. Major Traherne, in the Bad- 

 minton Library, says, " The time of day when 

 I have found salmon take best is between the 

 hours of nine a.m. and one p.m., and from four to 

 dusk in the evening." 



In the first of the season, when the water 

 is cold and high, any time of day except the 

 early morning is good, and the brighter and 

 warmer the better ; but, take it all around, I would 

 rather have from four p.m. until dark than all the 

 rest of the day; and from early in July there are 

 some excellent, smooth, but good flowing pools 

 that, without a good breeze, could not be fished 

 successfully until the beginning of twilight, from 

 then till dark being the best. The fish in 

 these places, which earlier will occasionally make 

 a languid rise to a No. 6 or 8 or smaller dark 

 fly, as the obscurity grows in the evening will 

 come vigorously at big flies 1° and 2° or larger, 

 the sight of which would make them flee from 

 their resting-places in the daytime. 



It is impossible to lay down anything more 

 than a very general rule as to the best days or 



