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part, we had captured at an early part of the day 

 sufficient to fill the vacuum in our pannier, and for 

 the remainder and greater part of the time had 

 returned all subsequent captures. Such days as 

 these are ever to be looked back upon as memorable 

 reminiscences, and at the end of a long life of 

 activity, cannot fail to form food for pleasing 

 reflection. 



NOVEMBER. 



As the season advances, the grayling will be found 

 a few yards above and below the deep holes, where 

 they will rise when the flies are on the water, even 

 in severe weather ; indeed it is by no means an un- 

 common thing to find grayling taking well during a 

 severe frost, when the line resembles an extended 

 icicle, for like Jack, the grayling are in the very zenith 

 of healthful vigour in the cold season of the year. 

 When the world of vegetation is lifeless, and the whole 

 landscape is submerged by an arctic wave, no sport 

 can possibly be more exhilarating, or more conducive 

 to health than grayling fishing in these circumstances. 

 The rodster uses grasshoppers or hoppers of another 

 shade before and after mid-day, filling up the interval 

 with the fly, say from twelve a.m. to two p.m. A 

 pleasing variety is thus afforded, which seldom fails 

 to meet with due appreciation on the part of the fish. 

 The flies to use, even in mid-winter, should be chosen 

 from those last " on " in the latter part of the fall ; as 

 when old Sol makes a feeble effort to rise in the 

 heavens, a few insects are almost invariably induced 



