200 TROUT FISHING 



produces extraordinary results on, in, and about a 

 river. Observing it in its numbers for the first 

 time, you would hazard a guess that a river must 

 be very prolific to stand the drain on its resources 

 that is undoubtedly going to take place. There, 

 on the one hand, are all the trout intent on feeding 

 to such a degree that they hardly take notice of 

 their natural enemy, man, as he stalks along the 

 bank. There, on the other hand, is the whole army 

 of anglers turning out for the destruction of the 

 said trout, armed with every device that can make 

 their victory certain. The contest is surely going 

 to be very unequal, and you begin to wonder whether 

 this is sport or a form of butchery. A short Act, 

 The Trout in Mayfly Time Preservation Act, occurs 

 to you. Its scope may be gathered from the 

 shorter title which you also think out, The Ten 

 Brace Act. Obviously, unless some such provision 

 is made for the future, trout which behave as those 

 trout are behaving in the presence of anglers who 

 look so capable and well equipped as those anglers, 

 are to all intents and purposes an extinct race. 

 Most of us have had some such impression in our 

 time. Some of us even find it recurring year after 

 year when we get the first glimpses of the Mayfly 

 rise. But it passes like many other first impressions. 

 There is no better cure for it than to take a rod and 

 begin under the hot sun. 



