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hours of the day, from April to the end of Sep- 

 temberj and is equally alluring to trout and 

 grayling. 



Whilst on the borders of Yorkshire, where, as 

 well as in Cumberland and Westmoreland, the 

 snipe's wing and golden plover's feathers, dressed 

 as hackles, without dubbed bodies, are the favou- 

 rite flieSj the writer was induced, by the recom- 

 mendation of an experienced angler, to try them. 

 During the morning, the weight and number of 

 fish taken were nearly equal, say from three to 

 four pounds each. Not satisfied with this diver- 

 sion, as the fish were eagerly rising at something, 

 the idea of trying the sand fly suggested itself ; 

 the consequence of which experiment was, in a 

 very short time, a pannier well filled with fine 

 trout, amounting in weight to nearly sixteen 

 pounds ; whilst the other party, well acquainted 

 with the river, had not caught half the weight. 

 His astonishment at this success was extreme, as 

 he said he was ignorant of the existence of such a 

 fly. Indeed, so prejudiced are the generality of 



