96 TROUT FISHING 



what the sportsman sees on the water 

 from above the trout sees from below. 

 To a fish or a man looking straight up 

 at noon from a stream or a lake on the 

 equator, there would be a glare ; but it 

 would be the direct glare of the sun itself, 

 not the reflection of its light. In a water 

 of our own latitudes the sun would dis- 

 turb the vision only when trout or man 

 had cause to look aslant towards some 

 southern quarter. The disturbance might 

 put the man off rising if there were some- 

 thing in the glare which it would be good 

 to snatch ; but it does not seem reasonable 

 to suppose that it would keep down the 

 trout. On the contrary, it should bring 

 him up. Even if a trout can look at the 

 sun as an eagle is said to do, the extreme 

 dazzle of the light must surely blur the 

 shape and colours of a fly ; and if the fish 

 thinks that some object between its eyes 

 and the sun is a desirable insect, surely he 

 must rush at it more rashly than he would 

 rise at a fly floating in a light permit- 

 ting of critical inspection ? However this 



