CHAPTER II. 



DANGER AHEAD. 



The natural habits of the various species of Salmonidse, 

 when uncontrolled, are identical all Europe over ; each would 

 behave in precisely the same manner whether existing in 

 Great Britain, Portugal, or Norway ; they are to the manner 

 bom, and incapable of aping the conduct of other species. 



This trait is common to all kinds of animals, so the 

 angler should approach a strange sphere of operations with 

 a firm conviction that he will meet his own familiar friends, 

 and he should not permit unaccustomed surroundings to 

 influence him in this respect. 



Climatic influence, conformation of the watershed, and 

 the nature of the river-bed, impart to fisheries individual 

 peculiarity, and the combination of these factors produces 

 a result suitable or inimical to the existence of fish. 



When fish occupy haunts embracing the necessities or 

 even luxuries of existence, they are loath to quit, notwith- 

 standing that changes eff'ected by various causes may have 



