CHAPTER VIII 



AUGUST 



On Loch Moraig Unreasonable Discontent The Time 

 for Midges Varieties of the Midge Seatrout and 

 Salmon Mr. Senior's Saying The Lammas Flood 

 West-coast Rivers and East-coast Rivers Why their 

 Seasons are Not Simultaneous The Influence of 

 Nature Man's Interference. 



" TROUT ? I tell you, we know nothing 

 about them ! " 



That was how a friend who the other 

 evening had come off Loch Moraig with 

 a basket of thirty-three fish wound up an 

 account of the day. 



He had been happy until the narrative 

 brought him to a certain hour. The 

 trout had liked his flies until six o'clock. 

 Then they had stopped. They had not 

 ceased to feed. On the contrary, their 

 rising at natural flies had become brisk. 



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