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fishing the best places in the stream without 

 success ; when suddenly, without any sen- 

 sible change in the weather, and at a time 

 when I least expected it, the fish would begin 

 to bite, and I have caught trout almost as fast 

 as perch in a pool at the foot of a mill-race. 

 With respect to the color of flies suited to a 

 certain time of day, I know nothing better 

 than the directions contained in the 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 flakey snow." 



Some writers on angling, who profess to 

 teach the art with as much precision as a 

 village dominie does the rule of three, direct 

 the novice when he has taken a trout * to 



* This piece of advice first occurs in the " Treatyse of 

 fyshynge wyth an Angle," in the book of St. Albans. 



