TYPICAL INSECTS OF JULY 



cover the subject adequately in so erratic a climate 

 as ours. Though, for that matter, nature equalizes 

 things; and it cannot be doubted that these same 

 insects have for centuries bred and lived on the same 

 streams where we see them to-day, with varying 

 abundance according to climatic conditions. 



Old residents of the village of Roscoe, N. Y., 

 tell me they could go to any part of the river 

 (Beaverkill) forty years ago and fish in the most 

 primitive way with worms, at any part of the sea- 

 son, and capture a large basket of fine native spec- 

 kled trout in less than an hour. This is sure proof 

 that natural insects were exceedingly abundant to 

 keep the fish in good condition and so plentiful. 



I can recall no July for many years with so much 

 rainfall as that of the abnormal 1915 in the first 

 three weeks of the month ; for that reason the water 

 was fairly cold and comparatively high and clear 

 all the time. Sport was still unusually excellent 

 in the daytime, both in the way trout rose to the 

 lures offered and in the splendid gameness and am- 

 ple size of the fish, even though well gorged with 

 the fatness of June. I hooked more, and much 

 larger-sized, trout than I ever remember. 



Perhaps I may be considered impertinent to as- 

 cribe this to the use of my own tied flies. I shall 

 have much better confidence after a thorough test; 

 at least it will be more conclusive after using the 

 right fly for the right month under more normal 



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