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hatching and on the wing, rousing the playful fish ; 

 the ants, in buoyant spirits, swarm their vast numbers, 

 and take their unknown flights. The aquatics of July 

 continue good, with the addition of the light and 

 freckled dun, and any other in the list that may be on 

 the water, and fancied by the fish. When the orange 

 brown, checkwing, dark drake, and the light and 

 freckled duns, or any one of them are hatching numer- 

 ous, and shew their well-known rich transparency to 

 the trout, they will rouse him on the watch, and he 

 will chuck them as the water brings them to him, with 

 a stomach of spring. They may be fished, for trout 

 and grayling, with or without the maggot or hackles. 

 Small hackles and flies, with the maggot for smelt, in 

 clear and low waters, in the ripples and runs of shallow 

 places ; the trout at low water ke.eps in the holes or 

 deep currents in the day time, and at night forages in 

 the streams. Grayling keep in the sheltered parts of 

 running water of moderate depth. 



MINNOW. This is the last month's service of the 

 minnow, to the angler for the hero of the streams. It 

 may be fished, suiting circumstances, same as in April 

 and May. 



WORM. As the top and bottom food of the fish 

 decreases, the worm is more freely taken. It may be 

 fished in this month as in April. 



OCTOBER. 



FLIES. The gild of the trout grows dark and dim, 

 indicating his annual change ; tempt him no longer in 



