DRY FLY FISHING 51 



which you walk, even for the soft country dust 

 about your feet. 



Let me again be free to choose the day, and 

 let it be bright and cloudless without wind this 

 time. A warm day with a maximum tempera- 

 ture of 75 in the shade; rather trying weather 

 for a wet fly angler, but not at all bad for dry 

 fly fishing at this season, and the sooner the 

 angler can satisfy himself with breakfast and 

 be by the water the better. On such a day in 

 mid-June some fish should be found rising at 

 any time after eight o'clock, and this is said with- 

 out prejudice to what may happen before eight 

 o'clock, of which I have no experience. There 

 are thirteen hours of daylight after eight o'clock 

 in the morning, and that is enough for a full 

 day's fishing. But the rise will probably be 

 quite different in character to the rise in May. 

 It will be much more prolonged, but more quiet, 

 and the beginning and end of it will not be so 

 clearly defined. You may expect the fish to 

 take best, and to find most fish rising between 

 ten o'clock and two o'clock in the day; but 

 both before and after these hours, there should 

 be some trout feeding. The rise of fish corre- 



