86 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
6. The presence of any large quantity of natural flies 
on the water is usually exceedingly bad. 
7. About sunrise and sunset are commonly the two 
best hours of the day in hot weather, as the fish are then 
on the Jook-out for the flies which oftener come out at 
those hours than at any other. In cold stormy weather, 
however, the converse rule often holds good. 
8. As settled weather is very favourable, so change- 
able weather generally prognosticates uncertain sport. 
WHERE TO FISH. 
The best places to fish in any river are usually not 
where there are most fish, but where they can be most 
easily caught. These places are moderately rapid runs ; 
scours, or “stickles,” where the water is of a medium 
depth, and carries a brisk ripple or curl ; pools, with a 
current through them ; and mill-tails, weirs, and eddies. 
Deep, stagnant, lagoon-like reaches can only be fished 
with success when there is a good breezy ripple on 
them. 
