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in rapid streams are always more or less on the feed, as 

 they have a difficulty in securing flies and other food; 

 whereas in quiet streams and quiet parts of streams they 

 seem to feed more regularly and at stated intervals, and 

 rest for a time after meals. The larger the fish the more 

 regularly he feeds and rests after feeding. 



After a bright, hot summer's day evening fishing often 

 produces good sport, and by evening fishing I mean after 

 dusk till you can no longer see to fish comfortably. The 

 red, and black palmer, with silver twist, the coachman, 

 and white moth are the recognized flies for this crepuscu- 

 lar business. It must not he forgotten, however, that 

 fishing after sunset is considered in most cases, contra 

 bonos mores, 



I might "memorandumize"' on in this style ad infinitum, 

 so much is there to say on fly-fishing for trout. But the 

 style is not satisfactory to me, and it may not be to my 

 readers, for, as I have before observed, nothing short of 

 a treatise on the subject can satisfactorily deal with it. 

 And even a long treatise would not exhaust it. Every 

 river in the United Kingdom would almost require a 

 chapter to itself. And after all said and done, the know- 

 ledge and art of the most consummate fisherman frequently 

 avail him nothing ; and to make matters worse he is 

 utterly at a loss to account for the fish refusing to rise. 



The capriciousness of trout as to rising is most extra- 

 ordinary. A fisherman may begin his work under the 

 idea that if he had had the ordering of the weather and 

 the state of the water, he could not have ordered for the 

 better. He makes a certainty of a full creel. But for 

 some unaccountable reason not a fish will move ! Par 

 parenthese, I am strongly of opinion that electric currents 



