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depth, like the darker blue of deep sea 

 water, or the dark colour of Highland 

 lochs, which Stewart considered of assist- 

 ance in concealing the fisherman's tackle. 

 It seems to depend rather on reflections. 



"For lake-fishing," writes Mr. Beale 

 Adams, who, as an artist, naturally studies 

 this aspect of the ruling conditions, 

 " colour seems an important point to me. 

 I do not mean peat stain, or anything of 

 that sort, but sky reflections. My fishing- 

 days are simply determined by whether I 

 think the water a good colour." Another 

 artist sends me an opinion on a somewhat 

 different effect of light on the details of 

 fishing. Mr. Dendy Sadler, who has a 

 special corner in the fisherman's sanctum, 

 is a firm believer in the old maxim, " A 

 dull day, a bright fly ; a bright day, a dull 

 fly," which is, however, on some well- 

 known waters, advisedly reversed in 

 practice. 



That these colours of the water are not 

 themselves hostile to fish taking the fly, 

 but are rather a case of Mr. Earl Hodg- 



