SEPTEMBER 223 



dry is filled. By the time the water is 

 another yard up, all the trout of the pool 

 opposite and of about quarter-of-a-mile of 

 the rapids below seem to have gathered 

 in the bay by the first hole. You see 

 them rising, rising, rising, some of them 

 not more than two yards from your feet ; 

 and many of them have slowly -waving 

 tails that are thrillingly large. 



During this month's floods heavy 

 baskets have been borne away from that 

 place, on which a few weeks ago one 

 stood striving to retrieve a pulled shot 

 from the tee ! 



I am not sure that it is possible to tell 

 exactly why this bay is a favourite with 

 the trout ; but one can at least note its 

 obvious characteristics. The water does 

 not whirl, and it does not surge. It does 

 not at any stage flow backwards ; in the 

 two or three yards where it is very slow 

 it is flowing in the same direction as that 

 in which the main gush goes. Above all, 

 it is part of what was the original channel 

 of the river. Trout, I think, instinctively 



