40 TROUT FISHING 



able times, on small streams, mindful of the 

 small chance we have, we should not delay, but 

 hasten on in search of a better field for our exer- 

 tions. 



Now ifc is by no means necessary that all 

 circumstances should be favourable to our seclu- 

 sion; on the contrary, one condition alone being 

 present, viz. rapidity of water in its descent, 

 is sufficient to ensure success, in spite of all 

 others, powerfully though they may act against 

 us. We urge then, that provided we have a 

 rapidity of water, with a consequently broken 

 surface and splitting up of the main channel into 

 numerous little rapids, we ought to be sure of 

 success. These little rapids and secondary cur- 

 rents differ greatly from one another ; some will 

 appear in miniature the trout pool as found in 

 large streams, some only a little cascade, others 

 peculiar, but all certain to yield sport if we know 

 how properly to seek for it. At some seasons 

 the rapidity of the water is too great, so that the 

 trout is unable to catch our fly, in its violent 

 passage ; at others so slight, as to be insufficient 

 to afford us the protection and aid we require ; 

 this is too often the case, and most frequently at; 

 the very time we most require the water to be 

 rapid, viz. in the bright hot months of June, 

 July, and August; at these times, when the 

 waters are very low, we have a greater distance 

 to travel before we come upon each favourable 

 spot ; all the minor rapids and pools we knew 

 sometime before, are now dried up, or converted 



