40 TROUT FISHING 



Throughout the country at large, how- 

 ever, the rule cannot be denied. It is a 

 west wind, or a south, that the angler 

 needs. If the breeze is from either of the 

 other quarters he has but little hope. 

 Here and there, as if at some aberrant 

 bidding, a trout may rise ; but he knows 

 that he will ply his lures diligently and 

 dexterously for an hour at a time without 

 success. 



Why ? Why do trout rise in westerly 

 or southerly weather and lie low when 

 the movement of the air is from the north 

 or from the east ? 



Many anglers will be disposed to 

 think that the answer is obvious. Some 

 will say that trout, not being, as is gener- 

 ally supposed, quite without warmth in 

 their blood, dislike the cold, and, as 

 human creatures do, keep out of it when 

 they can. That theory is not persuasive. 

 It is true that they err who suppose trout 

 to be "cold-blooded," many a fish being 

 distinctly warm as you take it with chUl 

 fingers out of the landing-net ; but even 



