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seasonable, troll him in the eddies, close up and into 

 the stream. Smelt pack together in shoals, and keep 

 moving downwards, making their halts in the broad 

 hovering parts of streams. 



WORM. The worm in floods and muddy water is 

 always good, as is salmon spawn ; the brandling is also 

 good in clear water, particularly in the morning part, 

 and for smelt through the day, but probably the fly 

 and maggot is preferred. 



MAY. 



FLIES. Nature brings up her reserves this month, 

 and her finny tribes are benefitted by the addition of 

 the heads of five of the classes the stone fly, green 

 drake, red dun, grey spinner, and the oak fly, which 

 may be considered the head of the house fly class. 

 But the main angling feature of the month is the 

 hatching of the stone fly, about the 8th ; when her 



and property of the salmon fisher. Their journey up the Ouse and the Ure 

 is pestered with delays and dangers ; their first encounter is with Neyburn. 

 dam, which barriers the salt tides. Four more dams cross their way 

 before they come to a stream to spawn in, and there are several more 

 higher up the streamy trunk of the Ure. These dams block the way of the 

 salmon, like turnpike gates, where vast numbers of them accumulate in low 

 water times, trying to get over, and waiting sometimes weeks the assistance 

 of floods ; this in droughty seasons must be a severe blow to the natural in- 

 crease of the salmon in these waters. It holds them back from the spawning 

 beds of their own free choice, where their progeny would be most secure ; 

 for which they feel the strongest impulse, and exert all their powers. The 

 dams also, otherwise so beneficial and necessary, give facility to their de- 

 struction, with nets, lysters, click hooks, etc.; and great weights of smelt 

 are netted at the cloughs, in their descent into the sea. These evils must, 

 at times, shorten the number of salmon in the Ouse and the H umber ; bat 



