96 THE WONDERFUL TROUT 



Fished all the Narrows over again, and 

 then Deer Pool down from road-side. Saw 

 nothing more. All the upper pools (Grasseys, 

 Lochanneaski, etc.) useless too low, and 

 Washing Pool and Deer Pool ditto. 



I used a small ' black doctor ' all the time, 

 and I did not take my flies away from the fish, 

 having a perfectly cool head at that work 

 after some twenty-five years' experience of 

 that river. On other occasions on the Inver 

 similar experiences could be accounted for 

 by a strong up-stream wind bellying one's 

 line, whilst one was obliged to stand high 

 above the pools witness Red Pool and the 

 next below but on the day above related 

 there was no adverse wind, but the day was 

 bright and somewhat electrical, with ' big bad 

 clouds/ and after 3 became worse, when they 

 would not move at all. 



These two instances illustrate the best 

 rising between 10 and 12. The slack time 

 between 12 and 2, and again a good time 

 between 2.10 and 5.50 in the first case; and 

 in the second case a continuous rising of fish, 

 but slack and short and uncertain, 11 to 3, 

 except two at 12.15 and 3. After 3 nothing, 



