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we believe it has to do with worm-fishing, 

 though perhaps in a less degree, we think 

 perhaps this is as good a place as any to 

 speak of it in detail. 



The ' times of the take ' vary in different 

 rivers. But we have often thought that after 

 fishing a reach up when the sun was on the 

 shoulder, or even behind the angler, up to 

 twelve or one o'clock in the day, especially 

 in April and May, and having had fair 

 success at the 'time of the take/ which 

 usually runs from eight A.M. to twelve 

 or one o'clock, and then fishing again the 

 same or a similarly disposed reach of water 

 with poor success after the sun had so far 

 passed the meridian, and was blazing down- 

 stream in the eyes of the fish as well as in 

 those of the angler, we have thought that 

 Stewart's combination of bad weathers and 

 sky were accounted for by the difficulty 

 the fish had in seeing the lures, whether 

 worm or fly; in fact, that sun and certain 

 lights and colour-effects often effectually 

 put down well-fed and large trout, but that 

 small trout or par or large ill-fed trout 

 still try to feed. Often when they do, it 



