130 When to Fish for Trout. 



fish in the day time seldom roam far from their 

 hiding places, so beware when you hook one, for 

 he is certain to make for it, and it depends very 

 much what that hiding place is whether you 

 land him or not. I have given one or two ex- 

 amples of this, but here is another worth recording. 

 I was one afternoon fishing in the Wandle above 

 Hack Bridge. I saw a very fine trout feeding 

 close to some boarding near a mill under which I 

 concluded he had his hiding place. I was fishing 

 with a small Alder, No. 12 hook, a fly I find most 

 killing in this river. On the second cast it came 

 well over him and he took it. To my surprise, he 

 came down the river as hard as he could pelt. I 

 had not time to wind up, and had to run fast to 

 keep below him, winding up as quick as possible. 

 After coming down some forty or fifty yards, he 

 suddenly turned sharp round under a mass of thick 

 weeds. Oh, oh ! my friend, this is your home, and 

 you think you have done me. I could feel, from the 

 slight tremor of the line, that he was still on. In- 

 stead of pulling to get him up again,! quietly walked 

 into the stream rather deep, but that did not signify 

 and gradually shortening my line, held my rod up, 

 and, guided by the line, dived my right hand into the 

 weeds. Sure enough I felt my friend below in a 

 great mass of them ; he remained quite still. I 

 worked my hand up to his gills and thought I 



