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orable weather, I only succeeded in landing one, but the 

 evening before we broke camp I took five more splendid 

 specimens in the same place and many times since then I 

 have laid off during the heat of the day and done my fish- 

 ing late in the evening by moonlight. 



If any of my readers visit Old Trent I advise them to 

 try the stretch of water I have specified, namely, below 

 Healey Falls on the west side of the river. The banks 

 are for the most part fringed with huge trees, which, in 

 the moonlight cast a weird shadow over the foam- 

 crested waves of the rapids. The moonlight streaming 

 through the limbs of the big trees reflects in fantastic 

 forms the waving branches of elm and birch. Here an 

 open space reveals a path of silver in the centre of the 

 river which looks to the eye bright as day. On either 

 side of it the shadow of the trees creates a blackness 

 that but brings into bolder relief the beauty of the illu- 

 mined waters. There is at all times hereabouts a suffi- 

 cient current of air, caused by the rushing falls, forty 

 feet in height, just above you, to prevent annoyance from 

 mosquitoes and night flies, and take my word for it, that 

 the angler who once tries fly casting for bass by moon- 

 light in the rapids of Old Trent, will be anxious to repeat 

 the experience at the earliest possible moment. 



