BROWN WATERS 



and I have known trout rise merrily in 

 the white smother of May and Septem- 

 ber snowstorms. 



The fact is that they may come at any 

 hour of the day or night, without wind 

 or with it, and that from any airt, in 

 heat or frost or thunder; or they may 

 deny you when every circumstance 

 seems to be most propitious. Nothing 

 so absurd is intended as that one kind of 

 weather is not better than another. Cer- 

 tain conditions are generally good, and 

 others are generally bad, but much of 

 the interest of the sport depends upon 

 those exceptions to rule which permit 

 hope and impose unresting vigilance. 

 Prolonged types of weather tend to 

 make fish lethargic, and a change, even 

 for the worse, is likely to render them 

 active. Where they have become biases 

 and uninterested, sunshine after lower- 

 ing skies, coolness after heat, a change 

 in the level of the water, anything that 

 breaks the monotony of their lives will 

 stir them. 



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