Fish and Fishing 



any time of day is good except early morning; tak- 

 ing it all round, from 5 P.M. till dark is better 

 than all the rest of the day. Worm-fishing for 

 trout is good from two hours after sunrise till 

 dark, and after dark, in the early season. The 

 same can be said of fly-fishing. On cloudy days 

 the middle of the day is best, especially on large 

 lakes and rivers. On hot midsummer 

 days the middle of the day is poor for 

 bass, trout, or pike, but good early and late in 

 the season, when the water is still cold. In fly- 

 fishing for trout or bass, the best time to fish 

 is when the natural flies get on the water; this 

 often depends on wind and weather; a quiet, 

 warm morning, from 8 A.M. to 11, is generally 

 sure sport all through the season. This time is 

 excellent, after a night's hard rain, when the morn- 

 ing clears warm and quiet, on a lake; also on run- 

 ning streams if not in flood. At such times, 

 many kinds of fish, usually staying on the bot- 

 tom, rise to the surface. If I wanted to rest, I 

 should choose the time from 2 P.M. till 5. For 

 mascalonge and pike-fishing, those hours would 

 be my choice, or for trolling with spoon or bait, 

 either in the early or later season, in lake-fishing. 

 In trolling for lake trout, with spoon or min- 

 nows, I should prefer the afternoon 

 Afternoon \, , rril , 



to any part of the day. The best 



part of the day for fly-fishing is a little before 

 sundown till dark. This applies in particular 

 to the hot days of July and August. When 

 the rivers are very low and clear, trout and bass 



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