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portions of water to fish during a flood I may 

 instance the channel at the wire bridge below 

 Peebles, and Neidpath Castle Pool, on the Tweed ; 

 and on the Clyde, Thankerton Bridge Pool above 

 the bridge, the Heather Brae Pool, and the Rock 

 Pool above Thankerton. Such places are always 

 of most account when the water is clayey and red. 



As the water falls and begins to get black, fewer 

 pellets and smaller worms must be employed, and 

 casts must now be made more into the runs where 

 there is a good flow of water than into the shallows. 

 Should the day be dull, with the water in this 

 condition, it may be better to change to the min- 

 now; but if there be bright sunshine, it is advis- 

 able to keep to the worm or to try the fly. Trout 

 take the worm in flooded waters in all states of 

 the weather not even excepting a thunderstorm 

 and at all times of the day ; but in a " small " 

 clear water, although they may take when the day 

 is coarse and blustering, we have seen that the 

 most favourable conditions are heat and bright 

 sunshine, and the most favourable time the earlier 

 part of the day. 



In small or partial floods, sufficient only to 

 render the water muddy, worm-fishing is never 

 very successful, as the worms are washed into the 

 stream only during full floods, when trout are on 

 the outlook for them. It is when the fish are 



