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so many other circumstances that they do not 

 touch the considerations advanced above. 



Late in July, when the nights are growing 

 dark, great sport may sometimes be had with 

 grilse by fishing about midnight from either 

 shore of the tidal water, especially if the 

 angler takes a trout rod and tackle. It is 

 wonderful what a big fish a grilse becomes on 

 a single-handed rod. And sometimes a sea 

 trout of 5 or 6 Ib. will join in the fray. After 

 dark grilse, and indeed salmon, lie much closer 

 to the banks and in shallower water than in 

 broad daylight. 



In the upper waters we always kill relatively 

 less grilse, compared with salmon, than below 

 the Fos. Probably they lie less in the regular 

 salmon pools than in the long and rather 

 shallow streams which we seldom fish. I 

 have often thought that if this water were 

 attached to a Scotch hotel, and flogged as 

 such waters are, fish would be killed in all 

 sorts of places which are now never tried. 



Grilse, though very free risers when they 

 are rising at all, are subject at times to the 

 influences atmospheric, or whatever they may 

 be which prevent salmon from coming to the 



