MAY 101 



upon the waters such a large variety of 

 insects that the angler has scope for an 

 agreeable exercise of craft. May, in short, 

 is the real beginning of the season. 



There is an especial interest in being 

 on any water for the first time. In what 

 respects will the fish turn out to be 

 different from those of other places ? As 

 usual on such an occasion, that was the 

 subject which concerned us when one 

 morning, at the hospitable bidding of Mr. 

 Stewart-Robertson of Edradynate, we set 

 out upon Loch Derculich. My com- 

 panion Mr. W. L. Wood, who had fished 

 there nearly twenty years ago, had been 

 declaring, on the way uphill, that very large 

 flies, flies at least twice the size of those 

 which are standard on Lochleven, would 

 be needed. This had puzzled me. Was 

 it to be supposed that the insects of one 

 water differed in size from insects of the 

 same species on another water ? Mr. 

 Wood, though a connexion of Professor 



