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So often too when they come are they good fish that if one is hooked and netted early in the limited time they allot for their angler- baiting process, there may be a chance of a procession of three all finding themselves on the same scales. With really gilt edged luck this is the. time for a solid two pounder so that hope can be continued right up to the end.

The blank is breakable even 011 the walk home down stream. Keep a look out especially when a turn in the path brings the western sky, or the moon, over the water close to the rushes. In such a case do not stickle for the upstream cast, but float your sedge down over him and do not strike too soon. He will do the business for you if he means anything at all. I remember hooking and landing a fine trout after a bad day and within a few minutes seeing another not ten yards lower down. The second one took the fly, gave me play right to within a cast of our opening stile, was plunging and splashing in the forget- me-nots, and got off literally on the net--the actual net having doubled itself across the rim in the shape of a tennis bat. He might have been thrown out. He was a splendid two pounder: the other weighed i lb. 14 oz. at the Post Office counter.

Still, this skirmish in the dusk raised the thermometer of one's feelings ten degrees and elicited an opinion from the Postmaster which surprised me more than I could say. " That is the best trout I have ever weighed on these scales." White recollecting this I had better add a codicil to say that the lost two pounder was possibly an ounce or two less, though I honestly do not think so. I can see the hiatus in the muddy bank now in my mind's eye and gauge his weight on the net.