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early part of this month, and in the coolest 

 days. 



AUGUST. 



The small red and black ant flies are good 

 killers for three or four hours in the afternoon, 

 and sometimes till sun set, if it is occasionally 

 obscured. The hazel fly, by some called the 

 button fly, is a valuable fly all this month. 

 The small fly, called the light blue fly, is 

 known to most fly fishers to be a killing bait 

 from morning till afternoon, if the weather is 

 at all favourable. 



SEPTEMBER. 



The willow fly is most to be depended on 

 this month, and for the remainder of the sea- 

 son : any of those noticed for July or August 

 may also be used occasionally. All the flies 

 I have enumerated, are for killing Trout ; 

 but you may also take Chub and Dace with 



