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especially in size, approximately exact 

 imitations of insects on the water at the 

 time of fishing ; but it begins to be mani- 

 fest that there are exceptions to the rule. 

 My companion at Derculich mentioned 

 that long ago, when frequently he fished 

 on Loch Rannoch with Sir Robert 

 Menzies, who was so keen a sportsman 

 that he dwelt in a hut by the loch for a 

 week at a time, living mainly on trout 

 the while, the flies in vogue there were 

 as large as seatrout flies. We have seen 

 what lures the Derculich trout prefer. 

 Then, we all know, if not by experience, 

 either from hearsay or from accounts in 

 the journals of sport, that the great trout 

 of Blagdon Lake, among which five- 

 pounders are frequent, take flies that 

 are practically salmon flies. What is the 

 meaning of these facts ? 



I thought I had hit on the explanation 

 when reading a certain article in The 

 Field. There I learned that trout which 

 since the war were put into South - 

 African streams are beginning to give 



