128 When to Fish for Trout, 



or after six p.m. But I go with Daniell, who, in his 

 " Rural Sports," gives a table of when and where to 

 angle for different fish, and under trout he says all 

 day, and he is about right. You may fish all day, 

 be it bright or dull, and have sport, too, provided 

 you know how and where to throw your fly for 

 a trout. Thomson well describes this : — 



"Just in the dubious point, where with the pool 

 Is mixed the trembling stream, or where it boils 

 Around the stone ^ or from the hollowed bank 

 Reverted, plays in undulating flow, 

 There throw, once judging, the delusive fly. 

 And as you lead it round the artful curve. 

 With eye attentive, mark the springing game, 

 Straight as above the surface of the flood 

 They wanton rise, or urged by hunger, leap. 

 Then fix, with gentle twitch, the baited hook." 



There are other places, however, well worth 

 attention, and to the observant fly-fisher it is 

 hardly necessary to allude to them. Most of our 

 southern streams are generally very weedy, with 

 open runs of clear water between the beds. When 

 the fish are on the feed they lie in these open runs 

 or at the tail of the weeds, and the big fish love to 

 be under the banks as every fly-fisher knows. Fish 

 are generally found at the tail and not at the head 

 of an obstacle in the water, because at the tail the 

 current round the obstacle is double and the flies 

 therefore are brought from both sides into the single 



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