AMERICAN TROUT-STREAM INSECTS 



here pictured. The big spinners pictured on the 

 page of May flies were still present on placid wa- 

 ters, but these four were playing and were caught 

 over rapid and turbulent water, where trout were 

 constantly taking them under. 



Spinners of various sizes are exceedingly numer- 

 ous in June. Some go spinning round and round 

 about six inches above the surface of the water at 

 astonishing speed, playfully chasing each other for 

 sexual purposes, never touching the water till they 

 join, when together they drop onto the surface, float 

 a short distance, only to be devoured by the trout. 

 Others spin in wavy motions, constantly dipping, 

 floating a while, then rising into the air — if not 

 taken by the trout. 



Most all members of the spinner class seem to be 

 good floaters, and are very swift in flight. I lost 

 two hours' good fishing in a vain effort to capture 

 the dark, mottled spinner, though many specimens 

 were all about me, as I stood in quite deep, rough 

 water, where they stay, flying low all the time. 

 They are not to be captured on land. 



The beautiful golden spinner — also seen in May 

 — is now all over the river, gracefully dipping at 

 the surface, then ascending to the height of thirty 

 feet in the air, where it floats around for a short 

 time, to come down and repeat the dip. 



Trout fishing in June can be very good and also 

 very bad — according to conditions. The first two 



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