124 AN ANGLER'S SEASON 



trout-rises, however, the insects, as far as 

 the fish are concerned, are almost wholly 

 waste. In most places the streams are 

 all rush and tumble, on which the flies, 

 apparently, pass unseen. If there were 

 long pools, with short rapids between 

 them, the trout would grow large and fat 

 upon the rich diet of insects. On the 

 estate through which the Provost's 

 burn flows there are at least a hundred 

 similar streams. Others of the same 

 kind in the Highlands and in Wales 

 are very many. All are left neglected. 

 When one thinks of the trouble and 

 expense to which landowners go in 

 order to make trout streams or trout 

 ponds in the plains, this is astonishing. 

 Certain modifications, easily to be con- 

 trived, would convert some of these 

 mountain torrents into exceedingly good 

 trout- streams. 



This month, unless the weather is very 

 unfavourable, the evening rise becomes 



