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and clearing, is no bar, and I have taken 

 salmon in the Tweed, literally in the 

 water over grass by the side of the 

 stream, using a very large and gaudy fly." 



Sir Henry Seton-Karr notes that rain, Different 

 by increasing; the volume of water and e ^ ects on , 



f salmon and 



discolouring it, affects trout less than trout, 

 salmon, for the former are on the prowl 

 for food, whereas the latter, when not run- 

 ning, lie at the bottom of the river and rise 

 only occasionally at the fly. When the 

 river is really rising in flood, salmon will 

 not look at a fly, as all their energies are 

 concentrated on getting up to the higher 

 reaches. "Yet," he concludes, "there is 

 an exception even to this rule, since 

 salmon will often rise greedily in the 

 first stir of a flood when the fresh water 

 first reaches them. ... A friend of mine 

 on one occasion killed three fish in rapid 

 succession under such circumstances, and 

 then the flood came in fuller volume, and 

 the rise at once ceased. Before the water 

 began to stir, he could not rise a fish. I 

 once killed two good fish on the Dee in 



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