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very difficult to imitate) will be found useful. Thames 

 trout will take the fly well, particularly in the early morn- 

 ings and evenings. Dipping is the only plan of catching 

 them in the sunny mid-days, but the angler should keep 

 well out of sight. Loch trout-fishing may be successfully 

 practised when a " flush " is found ; a well-scoured bait in 

 rising water will be found the best. In falling water fish, 

 as a rule, are gorged with food, and indifferent to the most 

 tempting morsel. 



JULY. The glorious summer is now upon us, and the 

 eventide is beautiful in its soft delicious loveliness. The 

 waters are low, and the salmon is scarcely to be tempted ; 

 a nice fly, sunk a few inches beneath the surface, will, how- 

 ever, sometimes tempt him. A neat bunch of lobworms 

 or a spinning-minnow may be tried as a change for his 

 lordship. The sea-trout and grilse in some rivers will 

 afford good sport, if tempted with a silver horn, with its 

 ringed, black, and silver body the golden-eyed gauge wing, 

 red and black ant-flies, the July dun, the " hopper," (which 

 is sometimes too familiar,) are the best flies. Moths are 

 more suitable in the evening. Grubs and larvae of all kinds 

 will be freely taken meal-worms, and the wasp, grub, 

 toughened, will add to the angler's resources in July. A 

 cockroach is not despised by trout. Chub, dace, barbel, 

 carp, gudgeon, &c., begin to bite freely. Look out for the 

 dace with a small fly in shallow running streams, and chub 

 under the friendly shade of the bushes with a palmer-fly. 

 The cheese paste will not be rejected by the latter gentle- 

 man, and barbel will take the same morsel freely. Roach, 

 perch, and jack are still suffering from the effects of spawn- 

 ning, but not so in 



AUGUST. For it is the bottom-fisher's carnival. On 



