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shallow side, and throwing in your bait, follow it- 

 down to the foot, when you may repeat the process, 

 or seek for some other place. If you are fishing the 

 edge of a pool, where you know there are plenty of 

 trout, you should keep at it for some time, particu- 

 larly if the river is a large one. In a full flood there 

 are not many places suitable for fishing, and the 

 angler will frequently find that, if he starts at 

 a good place, he will gain nothing by shifting his 

 quarters. 



When the river becomes of a dark porter colour, 

 it is better to put off the sinkers, and fish up 

 stream ; and several excellent worm-fishers never 

 use sinkers at all. But when the rivers are very 

 thick, we think the advantages of sinkers consider- 

 ably exceed the disadvantages, as without them 

 the trout, which are guided to the bait by smell, 

 would seldom see it at all, or if they did, it might 

 be swept away before they had time to seize it. 



In flooded waters trout may be captured with 

 worm during the whole angling season, but more 

 readily in June and July 'than in any of the other 

 months. And if in either of these months there 

 is a long tract of dry weather, and a small flood 

 follows it, an immense quantity of trout may be 

 caught, as after their long fast they will take with 

 the greatest avidity. When the rivers continue 

 small for a long time, the large trout get alarmed, 

 and hide themselves below stones and banks, from 

 which they do not stir, at least in the day-time. 



