food to come down and were waiting 

 for it." 



Colonel Davies-Cooke goes in greater 

 detail into the behaviour of these and 

 other fish in face of a coming change. 

 Thus : " With a falling barometer, trout 

 are sulky, in particular towards the close 

 of a dry period. When the barometer is 

 slowly dropping, both salmon and trout 

 will leap high out of the water and are 

 not feeding, only playing ; and if by 

 chance the angler gets a rise, it will be 

 short." A falling barometer, indicating 

 unsettled weather, is also fatal to gray- 

 ling fishing. "Grayling," writes Mr. 

 Rolt, whose monograph on this much- 

 criticised fish is now in a second edition, 

 " are influenced by atmospheric condi- 

 tions more, probably, than any other 

 freshwater fish. The morning may look 

 promising enough, plenty of fly may 

 hatch out, and every trout be on the 

 move, but grayling, for some occult cause, 

 cannot be induced to rise. On the return 

 home, after a fruitless day, it may be 



