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time of seventeen members — and both re-stock 

 their stretches of the river. 



The dry fly method of angHng is now practically 

 universal on the Test and its tributaries, though I 

 have heard quite recently of wet fly fishermen 

 doing well at times on the Anton, as well as on 

 the Test in rough weather. The olive or blue 

 dun is the most abundant fly found on the Test, 

 as indeed it is on all the chalk streams, but 

 the iron blue dun, the little May dun, and the 

 turkey brown all hatch out at times pretty freely, 

 and only last May-fly season I found the trout 

 feeding well for a while on all three of these 

 epkeinen'dcE. 



For artificial flies, the chalk stream patterns as 

 tied by Farlow, Holland, Mrs. Ogden Smith, and 

 others are in general use, and the smaller the fly 

 the better the chance of the angler. The Test is 

 a difficult stream, no doubt, but it has been my 

 lot to angle in various waters quite as hard, if 

 indeed not harder, in both the north and south 

 of England. 



The May-fly, which appears in early June, does 

 not by any means come on in all parts of the 

 Test and its tributaries. At Laverstock, for in- 

 stance, it is unknown at the present time, though 

 plentiful a mile or so below Longparish.^ In 

 regard to the lower portions of the Test, Major 

 Carlisle informs me that the insect does not appear 

 in any quantities till Compton and Kimbridge are 

 reached, and that the latter is the best place. 



^ The May-fly is unknown on the upper waters of the 

 Anton; and it is rarely seen above Gavel Acre on the Test, 

 or above Bransbury Mill on the Micheldever branch of the 

 Test. 



