NOVEMBER. 101 



files take up their ground the chosen stream and place 

 their journey's end and summit of their joys. In a 

 few days after the streams are deserted ; no longer is 

 the sovereign trout the companion and compeer of the 

 roughs and the rapids ; slimy and shrunk in the still 

 dungeons of the deeps, whither they congregate for 

 safety and for succour dimm'd, lank, and lousy, he 

 passes his cheerless Christmas, there to 'bide his time. 

 Grayling and smelt, the treasures of the Ure, may con- 

 tinue to give sport to the flyfisher, in the frostless hours 

 of noon, if flies be on the wing. 



November comes, when the remnants of annual life 

 must totter to their fall. Few are the flies and short 

 the intervals of flyfishing during the days of November, 

 a noontide hour or twain, and the curtain drops for the 

 season. 



NOVEMBER FIRST. 



Needle brown* Out daily in full numbers and per- 

 fection. 



Light, darky and little dark drakes. Hatching, and 

 out on fine warm days. 



Red and little red drakes. Out on warm days and 

 evenings. 



Light and freckled duns. Out in the day and warm 

 evenings. Found two or three of the latter under a 

 stone, as if just hatched : length, half an inch. 



House and lion flies, and bronze beetle. Out in good 



