A Really Astonishing Rise 



men returned to the inn at night. In- 

 deed, it seemed so. But one afternoon 

 toward sunset some of us saw on a 

 large pool near the inn one of the 

 most astonishing rises of trout that it 

 had been our privilege to see in many- 

 years. There seemed to be trout every- 

 where, and most of them were large. 

 How did this agree with the "fished- 

 out" theory? 



Evidently there were still fish in the 

 stream, but why the almost total fail- 

 ure of these anglers to take them with 

 a fly? Was it due to the lack of in- 

 sect life, and had these trout become 

 bottom feeders? Or had they been 

 fished for so constantly that they could 

 no longer be enticed by artificial flies 

 as ordinarily presented? 



If one visits a stream that has been 

 fished constantly with wet flies, but on 

 whose surface a dry-fly has seldom been 



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