WHERE AND WHEN TO FISH ill 



noon's sport. My first cast was made close to 

 two o'clock, and at six o'clock I had taken over 

 twenty fish, four of which, weighing over five 

 and one half pounds, I killed, and twice as 

 many more of the same size I returned to the 

 stream. I got out of the stream about at the 

 same spot I had entered it, having fished not 

 over one hundred yards in four hours. The fish 

 were taken in a broken rift; it seemed as if each 

 rock in it was the hiding-place of a good one; 

 and, though the current was quite swift, the 

 floating fly was taken in each case slowly and 

 deliberately. They were, it is true, not so large 

 as one might have hoped to get in some of the 

 deeper pools, but fair fish, nevertheless; and, 

 as about half of them were rainbow trout, 

 interest in the sport did not flag for a mo- 

 ment. 



In a short rift or run forming the connecting- 

 link between two pools, fish from both will be 

 found occupying it when feeding, occasionally 

 during the day, but usually at night, at which 

 time miniows and other small fish may be 

 picked up. Sometimes a good fish will remain 

 in this water, but, because of the facility af- 

 forded him for entering it from above or below, 

 this is not often the case. While this stretch is 



