62 ALL ABOUT TROUT FISHING. 



appointing. Of course they can only be 

 fished when there is sufficient wind to 

 cause a nice curl. 



I have also had splendid sport on dull 

 sultry days with a gentle rain falling and 

 the sky quite overcast with heavy clouds. 

 Trout also take with avidity for a few 

 hours immediately before a flood. In 

 fishing broken water it is quite an easy 

 matter for an angler to take a trout from a 

 good run, but it requires careful and scien- 

 tific work to creel half-a-dozen in a short 

 stream of say five or six yards. To do this 

 the angler must approach the stream care- 

 fully, and on hooking the first fish and 

 each subsequent one, bring them down 

 stream immediately they are hooked, play- 

 ing them in the water already disturbed. 

 If a trout darts up-stream it gives warning 

 to the others in the vicinity, and the merest 

 suspicion is sufficient to alarm those above. 



On a calm day only the streams are fish- 

 able, and the angler should approach the 



