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many days on the water, the trout become quite 

 satiated with surface food. They are now in 

 prime condition strong and vigorous affording 

 excellent play when hooked. They also forsake 

 the deeper portions of the pools, moving up into 

 the strong water at the head, and into broken 

 water and streams, where they choose convenient 

 feeding stations, such as eddies behind stones, 

 below banks, and submersed tufts of grass, and, 

 in short, every place where they can remain 

 unseen, and watch for their prey as it comes down 

 stream towards them; and the angler should 

 neglect no place where he thinks there is a trout. 



About this time they begin to act the epicure, 

 becoming exceedingly nice in their tastes, and 

 paying little attention to the angler's lure, and 

 they may frequently be seen following, without 

 making any attempt to seize it. When they are 

 in this mood, which generally lasts till the begin- 

 ning of August, always use spiders, and reduce 

 their size to No. 12 or 13; a No. 1 4 midge may 

 also be used with advantage. This, to a certain 

 extent, meets their views, it being more suspicion 

 of the nature of the fly, than want of inclination 

 to seize it, which makes them so nice. On such 

 occasions, also, the angler should pass over the 

 pools, and fish the streams, as in them, owing to 

 the roughness of the water, the trout cannot so 

 easily detect the artificial nature of the flies. 



From the middle of June to the beginning of 



