150 ON ANGLING WITH THE WORM. 



best, as the trout come from the pools into the 

 streams to feed. 



At some periods of the day trout will not take 

 so readily as at others, and there are times when 

 they seem to leave off altogether, and will take 

 nothing. The angler will generally find that, what- 

 ever he is fishing with, trout take most freely during 

 what is usually called the time of the take, which 

 generally happens in the early part of the day, and 

 may be known by seeing the trout rising in num- 

 bers. It is evidently then that they are feeding, 

 and they will take almost anything, but they leave 

 off very suddenly, and we have been catching at the 

 rate of three dozen trout an hour with the worm, 

 when all at once, in the very best part of the water, 

 they ceased taking our bait, and also rising at the 

 natural insect, and for the next half-hour we hardly 

 stirred a fin. After a time of almost total stoppage, 

 they will resume again, but not so freely as before. 



A showery day with occasional sunshine, or an 

 altogether sunny one without a cloud, is most favour- 

 able, but an entirely wet day is also very good. 

 Very good sport may be had in calm thundery 

 weather, even with 2 "white clouds" in 



the sky, as also in blowy wet weather ; but good 

 sport is rarely to be met with on a dark windy day 

 without rain, and the worst of all is a bright sky 

 with a few clouds, and strong west wind. In such 

 a day, early morning is the best time. A clear 

 cloudless sky generally indicates a degree of frost in 



