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should be a good deal larger than those used during 

 the day. The largest trout caught during the sum- 

 mer months are usually taken at night, as it is only 

 then that they leave the bottom of the deep pools 

 in search of food. 



At this season the fly-fisher, in search of sport 

 during the day, should have recourse to the smaller 

 waters and more backward districts of the country, 

 where the* trout are not yet indeed in some places 

 they never are satiated with surface food. Fly- 

 fishing at this season is more difficult than at any 

 other, for unless in a very favourable day, the trout 

 will not rise in the pools ; the angler, therefore, 

 must have recourse to the streams and rough broken 

 water, and to fish these successfully with the fly is 

 very nice practice indeed. The flies alone should 

 touch the water, and they should never be thrown 

 into the main current, but into nooks and eddies, 

 and all those places where the worm-fisher would 

 look for sport, and which will be indicated in a sub- 

 sequent chapter. The trout that will take a worm 

 will generally rise at a spider, if thrown lightly 

 over it ; but in fly-fishing the angler cannot capture 

 one-fourth of the trout that rise, whereas in worm- 

 fishing he can make sure of one out of two offers, 

 which accounts for the comparatively few trout in 

 the fly-fisher's basket at this season. 



In clear sunny days, trout may frequently be 

 seen basking in shallow water, which, at first sight, 

 seems scarcelv sufficient to cover them. On such 



