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elsewhere. Under a brilliant, steady, June sunshine 

 a great fishing help by a low clear water, with 

 a dozen or two of creepers, and cunning in the fling 

 of his arm, he is but a sorry angler who does not for 

 the time forget friends, home, and country. 



The creeper is fished with in the same way as 

 worm, by throwing up-stream ; but in place of fishing 

 the comparatively smooth streams that worm is used 

 upon in April and the beginning of May, the creeper 

 during that period should be fished in, or rather upon 

 the edge of, very rough water. The best conditioned 

 trouts only can lie in such water at that early season, 

 and in general, only the best conditioned trouts take 

 it, a consideration. Indeed, at such a time, we do 

 not recollect ever capturing more than two or three, 

 or so, in any other than pretty rough water. Where- 

 ever an eddy is brushed by a strong and moderately 

 deep stream a place where good trouts, if they are 

 in the water, are sure to be lying the creeper should 

 be applied, and, if possible, dropped just between the 

 eddy and the stream. All broken water where trouts 

 lie, such as that below mill caulds, and large stones, 

 is favourable for creeper-fishing, especially during 

 the first few weeks after the insect comes in as a 

 lure. When the trouts begin to take it freely 

 through the day, however, the sport becomes more 



