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the usual trio may be used with the three-yards lash. 

 When the evening shades gather and deepen, the fish 

 will be found to rise more upon the verge of the 

 shadow thrown upon the water by high banks, or 

 foliage situate near. We do not commend the use of 

 salmon casts and swivelled monster moths, etc. This 

 may be all very well in peculiar surroundings, when 

 the night is densely dark and the water well lined 

 with sticks and piles, but under these circumstances 

 we must confess to seeing sport only in name. In 

 point of sport and true diversion, there is certainly 

 more in the gloaming of evening when the moon- 

 beams " silver the landscape o'er," rendering the 

 surrounding objects almost as bright as when 

 under the orb of day. Then may the fly-fisher 

 conscientiously ply his art upon fair vantage ground 

 and with a clear conscience. 



The flies to be used are the largest and heaviest of 

 the day flies, such as the large browns, cinnamon, and 

 stone flies. The first-named form admirable copies of 

 the small grass moths, so prevalent late in the 

 summer's evening. The usual night lures, such as the 

 large moths of the customary shades, the coachman 

 and the caterpillar, may be used with success in the 

 way alluded to. With regard to the best size of moths 

 to use, we do not advise them to be too heavy. 

 It has become the practice recently upon some waters 

 to use lures well-nigh as weighty as the Ameri- 

 can half-ounce ; the size should average that of 

 a live May-fly. An artificial dressed by us to imitate 

 the fluttering action of the moth when upon the 



