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advances. During the hot months they take to the 

 cool depths, emerging after dark to hunt for food on 

 the shallows. As the weather becomes cooler they 

 return to lighter water. There the temperature is 

 more to their taste, as trout do not like extremes of 

 of either heat or cold. The weather changes in the 

 early autumn, and there is a decided fall in the 

 thermometer. Handling the wet line chilled my 

 fingers painfully. The smaller fry on which the 

 trout feed take to the gravelly shallows as summer 

 advances, and the trout follow them. 



During the morning hours we failed to find them 

 anywhere, and with the exception of a couple of small 

 fish the creel remained empty. After luncheon the 

 temperature improved, and with it the sport. The 

 trout came on the feed, and the rod bent and 

 trembled beneath the struggles of one-and-a-half 

 and two pounders. On one reach they kept breaking 

 the surface of the water, and I tried to induce them 

 to take a fly, but all such overtures were unavailing. 

 They were not feeding on surface food, but simply 

 gambolling, as fish do, and in such a humour 

 ephemeridae do not interest them. 



It was getting dark when we left the lake, by no 

 means dissatisfied with the results, allowing for the 

 fact that it was late in the season. Raven would, no 

 doubt, afford splendid sport in May or June, when 

 trout feed much better. A month earlier, I looked 

 into the well-lined creel of an angler who had paid it 



