180 EVENING FISHING. 



of summer the fish will rise all night (if the 

 portion of the day during which the sun is absent 

 may, at that bright and joyous season, be so 

 denominated), but you will not, perhaps, be often 

 inclined to tempt them till anything like a late 

 hour. Ten o'clock will doubtless frequently find 

 you by the river, throwing across that which, in 

 the clear moonlight, more resembles molten silver 

 than " the liquid element." Before sunset we 

 recommend any small flies, such, for instance, 

 as the yellow dun, the iron blue, or the golden 

 spinner on No. 1. or 2. hooks. After sunset, as 

 the darkness increases, rather larger flies should 

 be used, and we know of none better than the 

 red palmer, the partridge hackle, and a fancy fly 

 of our own, which we have named, out of respect 

 for our patriarch, the Walton, dressed on No. 

 4. or 5. hooks. At a still later period of the 

 evening, when you must depend more upon feel- 

 ing than seeing a rise, those flies should be again 

 changed for lighter and larger ones (on hooks 

 No. 5. or 6.), and they may be selected from 

 the coachman, the blue palmer, the white moth, 

 and the white spinner, on a large scale and thickly 

 ribbed with silver twist, or, in short, any com- 

 bination of bright and conspicuous materials which. 



