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trout will take an hour or two earlier. When the 

 waters are clear the angler should commence with 

 the creeper, and continue using it till he sees the 

 take has commenced, when he should at once change 

 to the fly, and make the most of his time. At this 

 season the take lasts longer than at any other, and 

 if the day is favourable the angler may kill the 

 required quantity in a few hours in the forenoon. 

 During the afternoon that is to say, from two or 

 three o'clock till six or seven the minnow will fre- 

 quently be found the best ; and a very good plan 

 is to fish up with the creeper and fly, and then back 

 over the same ground with the minnow. If neither 

 the creeper, fly, nor minnow will take, recourse must 

 be had to the worm ; but this is rarely the case, and 

 unless on the occasion of a full flood, the angler 

 may never have occasion to use the worm till the 

 end of June. When the waters are in full flood 

 recourse must be had to the worm ; and when 

 they are rising, or again falling, from the time that 

 the particles of the mud begin to subside until the 

 waters become of a dark porter colour, the minnow 

 will be found very deadly. The worm and the min- 

 now should be used the whole season through when 

 the waters are in the states just mentioned, but when 

 they become of a dark porter colour the lures appro- 

 priate to the season come into play; and in May, in such 

 a case, reliance can always be placed upon the fly. 



About the middle of the month the May-fly 

 makes its appearance, and with it the angler will 

 have no difficulty in filling his basket. In streams 



