nS TROUT-FISHING IN BROOKS 



more than well-mended kelts tailing down sea- 

 ward ; further, that the arrival of fresh-run sea- 

 trout is not to be looked for much before the 

 beginning of July. The advance guard will work 

 up, though in small numbers, during a June 

 spate, but the regular concentration upon fresh 

 water is, in my experience, only noticeable from 

 about the time named. As the month of June 

 wanes, and in early July, shoals of sea-trout for 

 they move in companies ascend with the flood 

 tides, but, failing extra water in a brook, they 

 mostly tail down again on the ebb, and hang 

 about the mouth of river or brook awaiting a rise 

 of fresh water. 



However, the growing impulse of the fish to 

 get up a stream, and find their redds, encourages 

 some of the shoals to work into it on the top of 

 any July spring-tide, no matter how low a brook 

 may be, and, as it may be accepted that they will 

 not move far in the latter conditions, their 

 location can be almost surely fixed. But let the 

 smallest of spates come down, and they are off 

 upstream, as well as many more waiting in the 

 tideway, only to be succeeded by others until 

 mid-September, when the annual run may be 

 said to be over. 



Should a freshet come down, upon its 



