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do well with winged patterns, such as the red or 

 blue quill. Nor can one say, from the look of it, 

 what an evening rise is going to be like. Some- 

 times when the trout are rising well they will also- 

 take well ; sometimes they will not take at all. I 

 have an idea that the evening and morning are 

 productive for the angler in inverse ratio. If he 

 has done well in the morning, or has had the 

 opportunity of doing well (the two things are not, 

 alas, synonymous), he may expect to do little in the 

 evening, and vice versa. But this is only an idea, 

 and I have not enough data to advance it very 

 confidently ; perhaps some other anglers have 

 studied the point with the help of carefully kept 

 statistics. If it should prove to be so it would seem 

 that providence treats the angler more fairly thani 

 in our heated moments we are inclined to believe. 

 Even if it does not, in warm weather the fisherman, 

 has just a chance of mending his own fortunes 

 when the evening rise is apparently all over and 

 the big sedges begin to bustle about in the dusk. 

 But sedge fishing is a thing apart, and must be 

 treated separately. 



