12 THE KODAK FOR ANGLERS 



nine months as described in the last chapter. Of 

 course there is no particular novelty in finding a 

 fly in a trout's mouth ; but it is somewhat of a 

 novelty to be able to identify the fly, and also to 

 find it in such a perfect state of preservation after 

 so long a time of wear and tear. 



This does not confirm Charles Cotton's experi- 

 ence, who says : 



' ' But I am very confident a trout will not be troubled two 

 hours with any hook that has so much as one handful of line 

 behind with it, if it be in any part of his mouth only ; 1 nay, 

 I do certainly know that a trout so soon as ever he feels 

 himself pricked, if he carries away the hook, goes immedi- 

 ately to the bottom, and will there root, like a hog, upon the 

 gravel, till he either rub out or break the hook in the middle." 



This was written almost two hundred and fifty 

 years ago. 



Another example of the work of an idle moment, 

 when the weather was cold and windy, and the 

 Kodak came into action. The old man on the 

 bridge looks as though he were waiting for a rise ; 

 he was, in fact, admiring the grayling at play on 

 the gravelly bed of the stream. 



1 Mine was fixed outside the gill. 



