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place the fly or to avoid branches, weed, 

 or other obstacles which are ever ready 

 to arrest the cast. 



Given, however, a moonlight night, 

 or one that is starlight, more particularly 

 after a hot day, excellent sport can be 

 had, even without the aid of a boat, on 

 almost any mountain lake or tarn, if one 

 has the patience to wait for the trout to 

 rise, and the endurance to stand the 

 chilling air at an hour when man by 

 nature, but not always by custom, a 

 diurnal animal should be warm and 

 asleep. 



Apart from the sport, the experience 

 of a night's fishing on the moors has a 

 fascination for many. To a few it affords 

 a feeling something akin to that un- 

 curbed, wild delight which must run in 

 the veins of the mountain fox when he 

 is in the still, dark night following the 

 burning scent of the hare which he can- 

 not see. Do not some of us still retain 



