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difficult to find a rising trout, and that when one 

 is found, it is not nearly so ready to take his fly. 

 By working hard all the afternoon he may add a 

 brace more to his basket, and he must decide for 

 himself whether this extra brace is worth two or 

 three hours of watching and walking and crawling 

 and kneeling and effort. If he has done pretty 

 well by two o'clock, and if the rise has then 

 become very slack, he may find it more pleasant 

 to leave off for a few hours and arrange the rest 

 of his day so as to come fresh and strong and 

 keen to the evening rise. - One difficulty about 

 the evening rise is to settle the time for dining. 

 After various experiments I have found it best 

 to have dinner, if possible, between five and six. 

 Two conditions are essential for this, one is, that 

 there should be some place near the river where 

 dinner can be had, and the other, that the angler 

 should not have eaten much luncheon. The 

 latter of these conditions is not only always 

 possible, but easy out of doors : the former one 

 is generally present on the Itchen or Test, where 

 numerous villages with inns are to be found all 

 along the river valleys. Having dined, the angler 

 can call the whole of the long June evening his 



