54 THE FLY FISHER'S GUIDE. 



PROPER SEASONS AND TIMES FOR 

 ANGLING. 



Commencement of the season Easterly and northerly winds un- 

 favourable for fly fishing A moderately warm breeze advan- 

 tageous Good time for sport after a flood, except in hay-time 

 or harvest Morning and evening best times for fly fishing. 



Before proceeding to treat of the haunts and 

 descriptions of the different kinds of fish which 

 rise at the fly, a few remarks on the seasons and 

 most favourable times for angling, may not be 

 here misplaced. 



Although fish are to be taken with the fly in 

 every month throughout the year, which the 

 writer of this treatise, by way of experiment, 

 succeeded in proving, yet but little diversion is 

 to be expected until the beginning of March ; 

 unless, indeed, the spring be unusually early, and 

 the weather warm, in which case the fish run 

 sooner, and sport may occasionally be met with 



