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bait well ; fly is much more deadly. I never now 

 think of using a bait until the temperature is under 

 50. The following is from my Diary for ten days 

 after it occurred to me that temperature was the 

 explanation : 



Water 47, 7 fish with prawn ; raised 6 with fly ; 



lost 2. 



47, 10 fish with prawn ; none with fly. 

 51, 2 fish with prawn ; 4 with fly. 

 46, 6 fish with prawn ; 4 with fly. 

 46, the same day another angler fishing 



behind me took 5 with spoon. 

 51 J, 2 fish with prawn ; 1 with fly. 

 50, 2 fish with prawn ; 3 with fly. 

 51, none with prawn ; none with fly. 

 50, 2 with prawn ; 3 with fly. 

 46, 3 with prawn ; 2 with eel tail ; none 

 with fly. 



" Every day the fly was used in the morning and 

 the prawn in the afternoon; the same water was 

 fished in succession. Had I stuck to the fly when 

 the water was above 50 I should have done better. 

 I do not mean that fish will not take bait when 

 the river is at a higher temperature; but I do 

 mean that only an odd 'fish can be caught when it 

 gets near 60. We can catch fish in tLe Tay all 

 spring with bait until about May 15, a few between 

 that and the end of the month, and almost none in 

 June and July. 



