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tinue to fish with the fly you have succeeded with. 

 11 I have often known a red hackle, or a dun fly, 

 take trouts, when they would not look at either 

 the artificial or the natural May-fly, though hun- 

 dreds of the latter were at the same time skimming 

 on the surface of the water; and that no direc- 

 tions are better for fly-fishing than the following 

 rhyme : 



" A brown red fly, at morning grey, 

 A darker dun in clearer day ; 

 When summer rains have swelled the flood, 

 The hackle red and worm are good ; 

 At eve, when twilight shades prevail, 

 Try the hackle white and snail ; 

 Be mindful aye your fly to throw 

 Light as falls the flaky snow." 



When trout are in perfect season, they are 

 thickly studded with black and red spots, which, 

 relieved by the dark olive of the back, gradually 

 mixing with the deep yellow of its side and belly, 

 produce a fine effect : at this time it is hog-backed, 

 like most other fish. The variety and colour of 

 trout, such as red, yellow, an 1 white, arises from 

 the quality of food, or the water which they in- 

 habit, being impregnated with some substance 

 capable of producing this effect. Certain it is, 

 their haunts, voracity, and modes of feeding, are 

 every where alike. Bainbridges Fly-Fisher. 



