CHAPTER III 



MARCH 



A Favourite Pool Trout Not Less Game than Salmon 

 Dubious Maxims Trout Scared by Gut and by 

 Landing-net Flies, Cocked -wing, Flat-wing, and 

 Hackle Sudden Change of Weather Principles of 

 Trout-Preservation Scarcity of Large Fish How 

 this has come about The Remedy English Streams 

 and Scotch Streams English Anglers and Scots 

 Anglers The Worm and the Mayfly. 



AFTER a day and a night of rain, the river 

 was about four feet higher than usual. 

 That suggests a raging flood ; but there 

 was no turbulence. While the tributaries 

 were brawling, the Tay was dignified. 

 Although there had been added to it a 

 flow greater than that of the Thames at 

 ordinary times, a stranger might not have 

 seen that there was a rise. The river, 

 at most places broad even when low, 

 had merely expanded a little in its 



48 



