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of their young may be brought into renewed activity by 

 their new surroundings, and when they find that they have 

 demolished the river life in the new pool they will be 

 naturally suspicious as to any fresh moving objects which 

 they see, especially if there has been no alteration in the 

 water, such as a spate, etc. Salmon which have apparently 

 ceased to take will, after a spate occurs and when the 

 water is going down, commence to " feed." This, again, 

 can hardly be due to the reaction attendant upon exhaustion, 

 for the salmon have left the more rapid portions of the 

 stream during the spate, and will have been resting in the 

 less troubled back-waters of the river. It will most pro- 

 bably be due to the fact that they become aware of the fresh 

 forms of life brought down by the spate, w 7 hich they feel 

 impelled to destroy, and consequently a spate may for 

 this reason occasion their renewed activity. 



THE WYE CAST A GENERAL SUGGESTION AS TO HOW 

 TO FISH OUT A CAST 



One cannot describe any particular method of fishing out 

 a salmon pool which could, under every circumstance, 

 meet with unqualified approval. The attendant and ever- 

 varying factors associated with each day, with each river 

 and each pool, must affect the method of casting and 

 fishing, and this problem should therefore be considered by 

 the waterside, and such a method of " fishing the fly " 

 adopted as to bring your lure most naturally to the notice 

 of a salmon, whose exact position, it must be remembered, 

 is most often uncertain. No one method will suit every 

 condition of the river, or will prove the most effective style 

 of killing fish. Your judgment must tell you how and 

 when to cast, when to fish near the surface, or when to let 

 your line sink deeply in the water, whether to work your 

 fly little or much, or whether to keep it perfectly still as it 



