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fall just before a flood. One is almost 

 certain to get fish then, however bad 

 the fishing may have been before. 

 Even when the water has risen a good 

 deal, and is colouring, one has a good 

 chance. I find, however, that it is quite 

 hopeless when the flood is high and the 

 water discoloured, and I have in vain 

 tried flies, large and small, prawn, minnow, 

 worm, etc. It is also almost impossible to 

 catch fish for some twelve hours when the 

 river begins to fall." 



On the " The salmon of the Bandon River 



River " are >" writes Mr. Conner, "supposed not 

 to take when rain is coming on, or when 

 the river is rising, but this is not at all a 

 certain rule, as on the 17th September 

 last I killed five, several of them during 

 rain, and on two occasions that summer 

 I killed fish in rising water." 



On the It is also well known that rising water 



is against fishing on the Tweed, and Mr. 

 Sheild confirms this. " A high flood," he 

 writes, "dirty and foul, is bad for salmon. 

 But height of water, provided it \>e falling 



