High Water One good thing comes out of the snow,
so far as salmon fishing goes. It seems very likely that there will be plenty of water in the rivers for some weeks to come. A good flow means that fish will be encouraged to run instead of hanging in the pools in lower reaches. The trout fisherman, for whom the season opened last week, is less blessed. The hatch of flies is retarded by the temperature of the water, and in any case trout are less inclined to feed. In lakes they lie in the deeps and rarely come into condition until the snow has gone from the surrounding hills. The flies of early spring are too few, and April is the best month for what is known as the wet fly. At the moment, it is hard to credit that the land, the water and insect life will undergo such rapid change in the next four weeks.
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