148 THE PRACTICAL ANGLER 



quiet water, and here the angler must still look 

 for them. 



There is no occasion for fishing up in a flooded 

 water ; the thickness of the water prevents the trout 

 from seeing the angler; and the best plan is to 

 commence at the top of a pool or stream, keeping 

 on the shallow side, and throwing in your bait, 

 follow it down to the foot, when you may repeat the 

 process, or seek for some other place. If you are 

 fishing the edge of a pool, where you know there are 

 plenty of trout, you should keep at it for some time, 

 particularly if the river is a large one. In a full 

 flood there are not many places suitable for fishing, 

 and the angler will frequently find that, if he starts 

 at a good place, he will gain nothing by shifting his 

 quarters. 



When the river becomes of a dark porter colour, 

 it is better to put off the sinkers, and fish up stream, 

 and several excellent worm-fishers never use sinkers 

 at all. But when the rivers are very thick, we think 

 the advantages of sinkers considerably exceed the 

 disadvantages, as without them the trout, which are 

 guided to the bait by smell, would seldom see it at 

 all, or if they did, it might be swept away before 

 they had time to seize it. 



In flooded waters trout may be captured with 

 worm during the whole angling season, but more 

 readily in June and July than in any of the other 

 months. And if in either of these months there 

 is a long tract of dry weather, and a small flood 

 follows it, an immense quantity of trout may be 



