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the atmosphere ; and when this is the case, the 

 trout do not take readily in the morning, until the 

 heat of the sun begins to be felt. During the 

 months of June and July we have frequently found 

 that we could depend more upon sport when the 

 wind was east than when it was west. 



As July draws to a close, trout do not take the 

 worm so well they begin to be capricious, and 

 will sometimes take only for an hour or two in the 

 forenoon ; so that worm-fishing in our earlier streams 

 may be said to be at an end; and if the angler 

 continues it through August, he must have recourse 

 to the more backward districts ; and sometimes even 

 to hill-burns. We have known excellent worm- 

 fishers unable to capture a dozen trout in the end of 

 August, where a month earlier they could with ease 

 have filled a basket. And worm-fishing may be 

 limited to six weeks or two months in summer 

 the time varying according to the season, for which 

 the best guide we can give the angler is, that it 

 generally commences about a week after the May- 

 flies are done, and in streams where these flies do 

 not exist about the beginning of June. 



All we have yet said on this head has applied 

 exclusively to fishing when the waters are small and 

 clear, and we shall now proceed to what remains of 

 the subject namely, angling with the worm in flooded 

 waters and hill-burns. 



To commence, then, with flooded waters. If 

 the water is very heavy, one or two No. 3 split 



