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fill the creel. In other circumstances the angler 

 will do better if he confine himself to the artificial 

 fly until the season brings round the May-fly. 

 Creepers are perhaps most deadly towards the end 

 of the month, when they are just about to assume 

 the winged state. I remember 'tis now many 

 years ago that in the Tweed, above its junction 

 with Biggar Water, I captured with the creeper 

 29 Ib. of splendid trout in the course of a day, 

 or rather part of a day; for there were no rail- 

 ways in the district in those days, and on that 

 occasion, as on many others, I walked in the 

 morning from Lanark to the Tweed, fished till the 

 evening, and then walked home again with my 

 loaded creel. Creels of fish then, as every angler 

 knows, were much better loaded than they are 

 now, and the walk home was itself a task quite 

 heavy enough ; but possibly, though paradoxically, 

 it would have been heavier had the creel been 

 lighter. 



The Caddis. 



Caddis-bait or cod-bait is the name given to the 

 immature form of various water-flies belonging to 

 the Phryganidse family. Some of these insects in 

 their winged state, such as the musk-brown or 

 cinnamon fly, and the green-tail or grannom, are 

 familiar to all anglers ; and notice has already been 



