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conditions of food are taken by trout in different ways. And 

 all the movements described are, moreover, further condi- 

 tioned by the season of the year, the health and vigour of 

 the fish, and his ability to contend with fast waters, and 

 his hunger or sportiveness, and his appetite or preference for 

 special varieties of food; also by the state, temperature, 

 and colour of the water, and the character of the light in 

 relation to the fish's position. Sometimes in streams 

 trout are so full of vigour that they throw themselves 

 right out of the water, taking in the fly in the upward rush, 

 and come down head first into the water to resume position. 

 The effect of the character and condition of the food of 

 the trout upon the action of the rise and its indications, 

 and the clues which rises of different character accordingly 

 afford the angler as to the food which is being taken, must 

 be the subject of a separate chapter. 



IV 



ASSORTED RISES 



A close study of the form of the rise may often give the 

 observant angler a clue, otherwise lacking, to the type of 

 fly which the trout is taking, and to the stage and con- 

 dition in which he is taking it. 



So far the present writer has found in angling literature, 

 whether permanent or ephemeral, no systematic attempt 

 to differentiate the varying forms of the rise of trout. 

 There has been little evidence of any general consciousness 

 of distinctions more precise than that between bulging, or 

 under-water taking, and surface feeding, and in this 

 respect this deponent makes no pretence of having been 

 more acute than his fellows. It has, however, for some 

 time past been growing upon him that, as no pheno- 



