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quantities of the fly are destroyed and 

 washed down the river. In this month, in 

 cloudy days, pale-blue duns often appear; 

 and they are still more common in Septem- 

 ber. Throughout the summer and autumn, 

 in fine calm evenings, a large dun fly, with 

 a pale yellow body, is greedily taken by 

 grayling after sunset; and the imitation of 

 it is very killing. In the end of October, 

 and through November, there is no fly fish- 

 ing but in the middle of the day, when imi- 

 tations of the smaller duns may be used with 

 great success; and I have often seen the 

 fish sport most, and fly fishing pursued with 

 the greatest success, in bright sunshine, from 

 twelve till half-past two o'clock, after severe 

 frosts in the morning; and I once caught a 

 very fine dish of fish on the 7th of Novem- 

 ber. It was in the year 1816; the summer 

 and autumn had been peculiarly cold and 

 wet, and, probably in consequence of this, 

 the flies were in smaller quantity at their 

 usual season, and there was a greater pro- 

 portion later in the year. 



Grayling, if you take your station by the 



