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as has usually been their practice, the better 

 trout have been feeding during the night. 

 Stewart says: 'Streams in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of large pools will generally be 

 found the best, as the trout come from the 

 pools into the streams to feed.' But when the 

 conditions we describe supervene and in 

 summer the wind usually rises as the day 

 advances these best trout, which have been 

 on the feed at night, fall back into the pools 

 if they find a ' rough- tongued'' breeze and 

 unfavourable conditions. Large, well-fed fish 

 leave the shallows at such times to the small 

 fry, and probably sleep (?) ; and the par and 

 juveniles, being young and active, then have 

 a high old time, and ' eat the gooseberries in 

 the garden/ so to speak. 



Every angler knows how particularly 

 annoying par and small trout are on some 

 days more than on others. If a large trout 

 is on the prowl, or has taken up his special 

 feeding-lie in a stream, he commands the 

 'key of the situation/ and is not slow to 

 repel all minor fry that come within many 

 feet of his ' monarchical throne/ This we 

 have often seen when looking down into 



