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happens that the floating-fly or even the 

 sunk-hackle is missed ? Temperatures of air 

 and water have also to do with the rising 

 or non-rising of fish. The ' time of the take/ 

 which is often, if not always, equivalent with 

 the time of the hatch-off of insects in suffi- 

 cient quantity, may also, and doubtless is, in 

 measure dependent upon the action of the 

 sun at certain angles to the plane of the 

 water or to the bed of the stream. 



As for ' short rising/ who among trout- 

 and salmon-fishers is not acquainted with 

 the phenomena which often occur, viz.: cer- 

 tain conditions of water and sky, amongst 

 which are Stewart's ' bad weathers ' such as, 

 in heavy waters, in coloured waters, in heavy 

 down-stream winds, in electric and glittery 

 skies, in leaden-hued water, on calm, sultry 

 days ? Never well, almost never have we 

 seen good baskets made on such days, unless 

 a change intervenes ; nor on days when criss- 

 cross winds and flaws of ' rough- tongued/ un- 

 steady winds 'waff 5 the water in all directions. 

 How often have anglers, including ourselves, 

 sat by the river-side watching the 'herring 

 fleet of "early duns" or "March browns" 



