FOOD-SUPPLIES AND RELEVANT MATTERS 103 



The run of elvers or small eels takes 

 place in May, varying with different seasons. 

 We believe this to prove a great 'stodge' 

 for trout, and after it takes place trout for 

 some time do not rise nor feed steadily on fly, 

 even when fly is abundant on the surface. 

 This movement of elvers usually takes place 

 between the 10th and 15th of May (in the 

 Deveron at least). In 1894 they ran on the 

 13th and 14th, with a rising water and north- 

 east wind, as was witnessed by a number of 

 residents ; and at various localities we have 

 ourselves seen them about the same period. 

 A full flood followed the run of 1894, and 

 trout were completely down after that on the 

 lower reaches of the Deveron, but continued 

 livelier about twelve miles higher up, at 

 Rothiemay, for about a week or ten days 

 later. We are not inclined to put this ' going 

 off feed ' to the flood and popular reason a 

 gorge of worms because a few trout we got 

 were not gorged with worms, but with eels, 

 larvae, caddis. One in particular seemed to 

 have eaten nothing but eels. And worm- 

 fishing, at least, had not begun. 



In the same way a gorge of caddis and 



