MAXIMS TO BE REMEMBERED. 8*7 



In blustering cold weather, or early and late in the 

 day, the best sport will be had in the still deeps ; but in 

 the rapids and streams, if the day is warm and bright, 

 or towards the afternoon. 



In the spring months, if the morning is cold, fish 

 seldom bite freely until the day is advanced and becomes 

 warmer. If it is cold all day, they will take best in the 

 warm sheltered parts of the river, where the sun shines 

 upon it, and scarcely at all in the cold shady parts ; 

 although in hot sultry weather it is the very reverse. 



When there is snow-broth in the rivers, fish never 

 take well, whatever the weather may be otherwise. 

 And if there is hoar-frost in the morning, they will not 

 take till afternoon, and not well then. 



From the middle of June to the end of July trout 

 are always difficult to take in all states of the water and 

 weather, being constantly gorged by the superabundance 

 of the larvae of aquatic insects, which at this season 

 swarm in the waters. Hence indifferent sport may be 

 expected from the end of May to the end of July or 

 August. 



Towards the latter end of September and in October, 

 trout run for the spawning grounds in the higher parts 

 of rivers and up the small tributaries, which then literally 

 swarm with fish, while the lower reaches are com- 

 paratively deserted. If the angler tries the mountain 

 brooks at this season immediately after a flood, while 

 there is yet water in them, he will have sport to satiety, 

 either with worm or fly. 



I have often observed that in September, before trout 



