CHAPTER IV 



APRIL 



The March Browns Time of their Rise Variants in 

 Imitation The Large Spring Duns When Trout 

 are Ravenous The Twin Trees Pool Three Good 

 Fish A Sharp Tussle Deadlock Defeat On a 

 Welsh Stream Unexpected Good Fortune Lord 

 Stanley of Alderley Mr. A. G. Bradley's Query : 

 Divination or Intelligence? Mr. D. S. Meldrum's 

 Basket A Lochleven Adept Char in Perthshire 

 Trout in Hampshire A Notorious Angler In- 

 tellectual Development through Sport. 



THIS seems to be the month in which 

 the March Browns are most abundant. 

 Day by day they are upon the river in 

 myriads. At the beginning of the month 

 they come out at two o'clock or thereby ; 

 they are a few minutes earlier daily as 

 the spring advances. Observing casu- 

 ally, you might suppose that the large 

 and lazy insects, floating downstream with 



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