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larval imitations, or full-winged flies across 

 and up a stream, while these motions may 

 slightly neutralise the action, and trout be 

 thereby induced to rise, still, what is the 

 usual result? Possibly a basket of small 

 trout, but far more pricked and lost, and a 

 large proportion foul-hooked. We have seen 

 nearly fifty per cent, of a basket of trout which 

 were foul-hooked, even by an up-stream 

 angler, and usually under the conditions we 

 have tried to describe. One day in 1898 

 we got thirteen trout (eight pounds) during 

 a short spell of trout-rising, of which six 

 were foul-hooked and many others pricked, 

 light-hooked, and lost. (For further details 

 consult the several Tables given further on 

 showing actual days of fishing described.) 

 The above is only one of many similar ex- 

 periences. 



An instance has been given where artificial 

 electric light had prompt effect in putting 

 down rising fish. This is related in an 

 admirable little treatise by Mr. Spachman 

 on New Zealand trout. 1 A searchlight was 



i TroiU in New Zealand, published by authority at 

 Wellington, New Zealand, 1882, p. 27 q.v. 



