io8 FRESH WOODS. 



workers, never for a moment taken into 

 account by the miller. 



A correspondent attributes our want of 

 success to the extraordinary hatch this 

 season. He says : 



"To this wonderful I might almost say ab- 

 normal profusion is due, I think, the disappoint- 

 ment of this year's May Fly-fishing. The trout 

 were literally crammed with the pupae, which they 

 took as they rose to the surface of the water to 

 assume the sub-imago state (this I proved by ex- 

 amination), and the fish so gorged were extremely 

 fanciful and capricious in taking the fly in its 

 mature or sub-imago condition, and when they did 

 so, rose lazily, repeatedly missing the fly. 



" In taking the artificial fly the same capricious- 

 ness and laziness continued. I found the best 

 time was at the commencement of the hatch, when 

 few flies were on the water. At one time none 

 but floating flies would take ; at another none but 

 drowned flies. Such was my experience. For 

 example: On Saturday, June n, in the morning 

 the drowned fly prevailed in the afternoon only 

 the floating fly ; on Saturday, June 18, the drowned 

 fly took all day, the floating fly being useless, and 

 both were fairly tried. 



" The fly last week was literally in myriads, and 

 the heaps of the dead were in such quantities that 

 where they accumulated a very unpleasant odour 

 prevailed." 



