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artist, and there is some reason for their super- 

 ciliousness. For the fact is, that whereas a bungler 

 may catch fish by casting flies at random from a 

 boat, he must be purged of his bungling before 

 scoring a single capture in a chalk-stream, and have 

 ascended many degrees towards excellence before 

 he can number his victims by brace. Nevertheless, 

 the bungler, bungle he never so diligently, will find 

 that the trout in most Scottish lochs are no longer 

 the ravenous dupes that once they were. They 

 take a lot of catching, though exacting consideration 

 of a different kind from that required on the Test 

 or Itchen. 



The angler passing from the banks of a southern 

 stream to the shores of a Scottish loch meets with 

 fish of identically the same species as he has left 

 behind him ; but how different is their behaviour ! 

 Compare the hurried, splashing, hit-or-miss rise of 

 a Highland trout with the leisurely approach, sus- 

 picious scrutiny, and noiseless ' sip ' of his relative 

 in Hampshire. After all, there is a reason for this ; 

 though it did not occur to me till after several 

 days' salmon fishing in a lake led me to reflect 

 on the different behaviour in taking the fly 

 pursued^ by the salmon in the lake, compared with 



