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I have noticed that the best sport is 

 obtained when the river is not in great 

 flood, but what one might term a 

 ' middling-size spate.' " 



Lord Montagu of Beaulieu suggests Lord 

 a rule for sea-trout in tidal reaches. The Montagu of 



Beaulieu on 



influence of the tides causes another form sea-trout in 

 of rise and fall in the lower reaches of 

 rivers debouching on the sea, and of sea- 

 trout in such conditions his long experi- 

 ence has taught him that these fish take 

 best on the rising tide in those waters 

 which are subject to rise and fall. 



Most fish appear to be put off the feed Thames 

 by a rapid rise in the water, but for 

 Thames trout Mr. Wheeley regards a 

 swift and sudden rise as a good condition, 

 if with no extra colour in the water. This 

 reservation he underlines. 



Generally speaking, it is obvious that General 

 a period of drought on a salmon-river 



means abundance of fish for the nets drought on 



salmon and 



working down in the estuary, where fish sea-trout. 

 congregate in their hundreds, waiting for 

 the first favourable chance to ascend, but 



