CURIOUS PHENOMENA. 81 



the dropper and fish with only one than fish with 

 three, and be sure of more success too, as through 

 a day or night you have no hankings or hindrance. 



CUEIOUS PHENOMENA. 



Some curious phenomena occur in angling which 

 may come well enough in place to relate here. In 

 fishing either for salmon or trout, more I think 

 depends upon the state of the atmosphere for suc- 

 cess or non-success, than on any other single cir- 

 cumstance, or on all other causes taken together. 



In the salmon department, we may passively 

 observe, that often when all seems fine, and you 

 know that salmon are in the pool or stream, and 

 might suppose that they would just be lying ready 

 watching for a fly ; you may cast over it with all 

 the blandishments of your art, try all known means 

 of temptation, and even supposed new means as 

 well try to raise the rock he lies on ! Say that this 

 occur twice in the day, morning and middle ; yet 

 go back about sunset, when you may likely have 

 him up at first sight, fit to tear the rod from your 

 hands. Now, whether he had been asleep, or had 



