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TROUT INSECTS FOR MAY 



The smiling month of May is indeed the an- 

 gler's halcyon days. Hungry trout are in abun- 

 dance; they forage and feed without fear or scru- 

 ple. When the weather is warm myriads of flies 

 flock the air and the trout revel in food night and 

 day. 



Yet it is not always so. May is a saucy, coy 

 month, changeable as the wind, from good to bad, 

 and bad to good, all of a sudden in the mountain 

 regions, during the first week or two. After a 

 beautiful day, you may wake up the next morning 

 to see a fierce snowstorm or perhaps a heavy frost. 

 Toward the end May robes herself in bright em- 

 erald, and the woods and riverside are spangled with 

 spring blossoms and golden pussy-willows. I can 

 imagine nothing more delightful than fishing for 

 trout at the end of May. 



In 1915, during the early part of the month the 

 sky was cloudless, the weather warm though windy, 

 and perhaps a little in advance of the average May. 

 There was no rain or frost the first week, and the 



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