222 Night-Fishing. 



her glistering dewy tears she smiles serenely as she 

 dreams of the warmer blush of a rosy dawn that 

 shall kiss these tears away. But the stream sleeps 

 not, sleeps never. Now shimmering 'neath the 

 glance of heaven, now hurrying through the gloom 

 which earth hath cast, yet ever to the music of 

 its own glad heart, it rolls its ceaseless course to 

 ocean, fraught with blessing, and rich in lessons to 

 the wise, who can read the " books in the running 

 brooks," no less by night than day. But to our 

 angling. 



The lures that obtain in night-fishing are fly, 

 minnow, and worm. As the methods of using 

 them at night do not materially differ from those 

 already given for day-fishing, little more remains to 

 be done here than to indicate the circumstances of 

 time and place most favourable for good results. 

 But I must premise that, although all these lures 

 may be, and often are, resorted to in turn during 

 the same night, still, seeing that the main reliance 

 is upon the artificial fly in some of its forms, I 

 always find it most convenient to employ the loop- 

 rod and line throughout. 



The night cast is made up of pretty strong gut, 

 and the flies, six or seven in number, are placed 

 thereon, about twenty-eight inches apart. The flies 

 being fewer, this wider interval between them does 

 not necessitate a longer cast than I use during 



