130 AN ANGLER'S SEASON 



the evening when they are about to go 

 out of condition. 



Our immediate problem concerns the 

 period during which they are vigorous in 

 health and appetite, the period during 

 which an evening rise is always looked 

 for. Why is it that sometimes, after 

 toiling for hours without success, and 

 after beginning late in the day to put 

 increasing trust in the gloamin', one 

 finds the dusk merging uneventfully 

 into night? This does happen. Its 

 happening inopportunely accounts, as 

 has been indicated, for the scepticism 

 which has occasionally been cast upon 

 our theme. 



I cannot solve the problem ; but I 

 can state a few suggestive facts. During 

 the period of what may be roughly 

 called summer, a period which varies 

 with latitude and partly with the level 

 of the land in relation to the sea, there 

 will invariably, on any river or lake in 

 Great Britain that holds trout, be a rise 

 at and about sundown after a day that 



