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water. In spring (a bad season for fly-fishing 

 in high Alpine countries) I have thrown great 

 varieties of flies on these two highly stocked 

 streams, and have found it difficult to get a 

 brace of fish for the table, as the trout and 

 grayling were all lying at the bottom, not ex- 

 pecting any winged food at this season. 



A river that runs into a large lake affords, 

 at its junction with the lake, by far the best 

 place for continuous angling, particularly for 

 trout in autumn. The fish are constantly 

 running up the river for the purpose of spawn- 

 ing, and every day offers a succession of new 

 shoals, of which many will take the fly ; I say 

 many, because at this season some of the fish, 

 particularly the females, are capricious, and re- 

 refuse a bait, of which, under other circum- 

 stances, they are greedy. I may say the same 

 with respect to the exit of a river from a lake, 

 to which successions of fishes resort, and 

 though trout are found abundantly in such 

 places, yet they are often still better places 

 for grayling when these fish exist in the lake, 

 the tendency of grayling being rather, as I 

 said on another occasion, to descend than to 



