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The operation is repeated four or five times, until some fifty fish have been bagged. The poachers then depart, taking care to remove all signs of their night's work, such as scales of fish, stray weeds, and bits of stick. In weed-cutting by hand, instead of with the long knives, it is wonderful how many trout get cut by the scythes.
But here again radiation comes in to complicate matters; for clouds may check the formation of dew. It may safely be said, however, that other conditions being favourable, a fast run is likely to occur at any time of day should the dew point be reached. Thus the hygrometer is worthy to be studied on a hunting morning. In May there is a good deal of weed-cutting to be done on a trout stream.
Two men hold the ends and walk up the stream, one on each side of the river, mowing as they go. There is a certain amount of management required in weed-cutting. If much weed is left uncut, the millers grumble; if you cut them bare, there are no homes left for the fish. The last is the worse evil of the two.
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