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weight. They have risen badly, and their flesh 

 though pink is inferior. Twenty of the full- 

 grown rainbows have been killed altogether, but 

 many more have been landed. There appear to 

 be a fair number in the water still, for they take 

 a bait in the deep water better than a fly in the 

 surface, and in more than one year, including 

 1898, small rainbows of a quarter of a pound 

 and less have been caught, which proves that 

 they too have bred successfully in the still 

 water. The general condition of the rain- 

 bows landed has been very inferior to that of 

 the trout, but this is partly accounted for by 

 the fact, that they appear not to be in season 

 during the best of the fly-fishing time. My 

 rainbow trout are full of milt and ova in 

 April, and those we have caught in May and 

 June the best rising months have not been 

 fit to eat. 



" I feel that the value of all these experiments, 

 and the inferences to be drawn from them, are 

 restricted by the tiny scale upon which alone I 

 have had any opportunity of stocking water, 

 but the record of them may perhaps stimulate 

 others to give the result of larger and more 



