EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE OI\r SALMON. 1 1 v 



in day-time. I noticed this particularly when 

 fishing the Namsen, in Norway, where I caught by 

 far the largest proportion of fish between 8 a.m. and 

 1.30 p.m. When fishing the Mols River, further 

 north within the Arctic circle, where the sun never 

 sets in summer, I noticed that the fish were far less 

 inclined to feed during the small hours of the 

 morning than at any other time. They took fairly 

 well up to 12 o'clock, and afterwards appeared 

 disinclined to feed for several hours. I have noticed 

 that salmon are more hungry in the spring of the 

 year soon after sunset, and continue to feed freely 

 until it is too dark to change one's fly. They then 

 stop feeding all of a sudden, and in my belief do 

 not begin again until about nine or ten in the following 

 morning, provided always there Is no frost. Taking 

 the season through, I have killed far more salmon from 

 this time uj) to 1.30 p.m. than during any other period 

 of the day, and I do not think I am wrong in 

 asserting that the fish feed more by day than by 

 night, except perhaps in the very height of summer. 



