164 SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



fly in comparatively shallow water, the conditions are thus 

 more favorable for the fly-fisher. 



The hypothesis, then, that game fishes feed mostly at 

 night and rest or sleep by day, and that it is only the few 

 tha| failed to fully satisfy their appetites the night before 

 that are apt to respond to the wiles of the angler, is quite 

 a reasonable one, and one that will account for most of the 

 " bad luck " of the angler. 



