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them with a March Brown and other 

 trout-flies, even in low, bright water and 

 hot sun, with fish jumping in the pools 

 the kind of day that he ordinarily regards 

 as hopeless. 



As regards trout, which are stay-at- Rainbow- 

 home animals, a good deal depends on Minnesota. 

 the extent of their education in the ways 

 of the fisherman. Sir Henry Seton-Karr 

 once made a fine basket of rainbow-trout 

 in a private fishery, not far from Minne- 

 apolis, in calm, clear water on a sunny 

 August day. He would not have thought 

 such a result possible, and fished only to 

 oblige his American friends, who were 

 sanguine of success. 



Whatever objections fishermen may Advantage of 



u i /? sun and cloud 



have learnt from experience to raise a i ternate i y 

 against sunshine, there seems to be no 

 doubt whatever about a condition of alter- 

 nating sun and shade, with gleams between 

 passing clouds, being particularly favour- 

 able to sport, and preferable even to 

 uniform dulness of the sky. What pre- 

 cisely may be the effect of such chopping 



