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for char in 

 Loch Tay. 



Mahseer may 

 sulk in hot 

 weather. 



Other fish 

 lethargic. 



the other, having hooked them simul- 

 taneously. We also took about six or 

 eight others, running from 4 Ibs. to 9 Ibs. 

 Char I have taken freely on one or two 

 occasions in Loch Tay in August during 

 fine, hot, settled weather." 



With reference to mahseer, to which 

 allusion was made in the Introduction in 

 connection with Colonel Bairnsfather's 

 ingenious "normal weather" theory, and 

 which is generally regarded as feeding 

 best in the ordinary hot, sunny weather 

 of India, an exception must be made 

 to even this rule. Lieut. -Colonel H. H. 

 Godwin-Austen tells me that he has seen 

 mahseer in the large pools of the Rajawrie 

 Tawi rolling over and jumping out of 

 water on a hot evening, but that no fly 

 would tempt them. 



" Hot sun and continuous still, dry 

 weather," writes Major Wynn Eyton, 

 "will heat up the water and make the 

 trout sick and lethargic." 



Mr. Gallichan is of opinion that the 

 majority of coarse fish, with the possible 



