148 MAY. 



Cloudy weather, a little windy, especially from 

 the South, is in high favour with the trouter, 

 because the streams which this beautiful fish 

 inhabit are usually not deep, and very clear, 

 thereby exposing the angler entirely to his 

 quick eye. The finest old trouts, however, are 

 taken in the night with a worm, being too shy 

 to come out of their holes, or to rise in the day : 

 they are often taken by torch-light in Hamp- 

 shire, as salmon are in Scotland, striking them 

 down with a spear. 



Flies. The oak- fly to be found from the be- 

 ginning of this month till the end of August, 

 on the bole of an oak or ash, always standing 

 head downwards: the hawthorn-fly, a small, 

 black fly : the Turkey-fly, red and yellow : al- 

 der-fly, and the great hackle. These are chiefly 

 stone-flies, or phryganese. 



