SOME TROUT INSECTS FOR AUGUST 



No. 13. This is the only small spinner I saw in 

 flight that was at all plentiful. Some large ones, 

 isolated specimens, were the same as those pictured 

 in July. 



No. 14- Fluffy spinners. A two-winged, moth- 

 like insect, of a pale creamy color, with very long 

 legs and tail. Its entire body and wings are 

 downy. One would take it for a spinner were it 

 not that its flight is quite slow. 



No. 15. This is an extremely abundant hairy 

 caterpillar that is so thick in numbers as to be 

 crushed at almost every step along the edge of the 

 stream. I introduce it this month because I think 

 a good imitation caterpillar would be very effective 

 for big trout — possibly more so than flies in August. 

 In fact, every month has some particular abundant 

 caterpillar. There is another green hairy caterpil- 

 lar in June, quite as plentiful, which breeds in a sort 

 of webbed enclosure on the apple-trees. During 

 the floods in May there is the common brown and 

 also the black hairy caterpillar. These three I did 

 not include in those months because the space was 

 needed for the overabundance of insects ; and I am 

 doubtful if they would at that time prove such 

 effective lures (except in floods) as this August 

 specimen would be when insects are comparatively 

 scarce. 



Before concluding this list of monthly insects I 

 would ask the prudent angler to give a fair test to 



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