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THE TEOUT FLIES FOE THE 



SEASON. 



I will now give a description of those flies 

 which will be found most killing, as they are 

 imitations of the natural ones that appear in 

 each month, so that the fly-fisher may practice 

 with them to very great advantage. 



The numbers of each correspond with the 

 engravings in the plates of the catalogue of 

 flies. 



The Tkout is a game and sportive fish, and 

 affords much amusement to the fly-fishers, as 

 well as being generally esteemed the best of 

 our fresh-water fishes for the table. The 

 spawning time of the trout is much the same 

 as that of the salmon, about October and 

 November, and their haunts very similar ; they 

 fix upon some gravelly bottom to deposit their 

 spawn, in either river or lake, and are never 

 good when big with roe. After they have 

 spawned they become lean and wasted, and 

 their beautiful spots disappear; in this state 

 they retire to the deep and still parts of the 



