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founded upon fact; for, while trout do not in- 

 variably rise during thunder-storms, they may 

 be taken on occasions when the reverberations 

 are so heavy as to be felt almost as distinctly as 

 they are heard the effect upon the fish not 

 being apparent. 



If the storm be accompanied by a heavy rain, 

 dry fly fishing ceases as soon as the water begins 

 to rise and becomes discoloured, because, even 

 though the fish may be ready to feed, there is 

 small likelihood of the angler's fly being seen 

 by them through the discoloured water. But 

 no time should be wasted in returning to the 

 stream after the flood has run off and the water 

 is clearing, as the opportunity for taking fish 

 is then probably the best that will be presented. 



Idiosyncrasy or shall we call it superstition ? 

 seems to enter into the make-up of a great 

 many anglers. 



Squire Jake Price, now dead, father of the 

 boys who keep that comfortable hostelry on the 

 Brodhead, at Canadensis, in Pennsylvania, well 

 known to many anglers, was famous as a trout 

 fisherman. He fished with the fly only, tied his 

 own flies, and from the time his sons were able 

 to wade the streams would permit them to use 

 nothing else. Always keen to be at his fishing, 



