186 THE DRIFFIELD ANGLER. 



the course of the current, Trout will bite 

 eagerly; because, expecting the water to 

 bring down food with it, they come forth, 

 to seek it. 



When rains cause the rivers to rise, and 

 keep them for some time above their ordinary 

 height, Trout leave the largest rivers, and 

 retire into such small brooks as are almost 

 dry in hot summers, and in such brooks you 

 should then anglefor them: theygenerallyquit 

 the great rivers at Michaelmas, and go into, 

 small rivulets to spawn, and are frequently 

 there destroyed by idle and disorderly poach- 

 ers, with groping and tickling, or otherwise, 

 which does more injury to the breed of fish, 

 than all the summers angling. In all sorts 

 of angling be sure to keep out of the fish's 

 sight, and as far oiF the river's bank as pos- 

 sible, unless you angle in a muddy water, 

 and then you may approach nearer:. Angle 

 always, 'if you can, on the lee-shore; and 

 observe, that fish lay or swim nearer the 

 bottopi,. and in deeper water, in winter thau 



