CHAPTER V 



MAY 



The Temperate Month Real Beginning of the Trout 

 Season On Loch Derculich Mr. W. L. Wood 

 The Junglecock - and - Black James Stewart 

 Large Flies Mysteriously Successful Precedents 

 from Bygone Times Testimony of Ancient Tackle- 

 Books Oil Loch-na-Craig Lochleven Trout in the 

 Highlands The Moness Burn The Provost off-Duty 

 What Might be Made of Burns The Evening 

 Rise. 



MAY, as a whole, is the briskest month 

 of the trout season. The fish, it is true, 

 are not in the best condition until about 

 the middle of June, by which time, in 

 many parts of the country, they have had 

 a fortnight's feasting on Mayflies ; but in 

 May they rise freely, and are sufficiently 

 well nourished to be worthy alike of 

 the sportsman's zeal and of the cook's 

 respect. Before then they take flies, real 



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