OCTOBER. 89 



Spinner, little spinner. Out among the grass most of the 

 latter part of the day. 



House, lion, and bank flies, blue bottle, bronze beetle. Out, 

 more or less, daily. 



Several species of ear wigs out daily, three-eighths, black 

 ones probably the most numerous; and vast numbers of 

 dark midges, of the house fly shape, were pouring out of the 

 water, and may be found on the under-sides of loose stones 

 by the water's edge. . 



NOTE. This is a good angling month, and may be called 

 the April of the later season. Trout, grayling, and smelt, 

 are all good, although the trout may be somewhat declining 

 and the others improving. Much of the summer top food 

 of the fish, flies, insects, etc., have disappeared, from the 

 change of temperature of the air, which has not affected 

 the waters ; they are full of creepers, and are turning out 

 numbers of flies daily. Many of the favorite aquatic flies 

 of spring are in full force and numbers this month. Their 

 shades of color must be attended to, and their sizes and 

 parts natural in their imitations. The leaders for trout 

 are nearly the same as for last month the orange and 

 needle browns, the checkwing, blue, dark, light, iron blue, 

 and coral-eyed drakes, are taken as they hatch and come on 

 the waters. 



OCTOBER. 



THE cold breath of Autumn which creeps up in the dark, 

 and shrivels the leaf, spares not the summer fly ; they 

 dwindle away with the declining warmth of the sun ; still 

 the waters, faithful to their trust, on genial days pour out 



