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got a perfect picture of a trout of two pounds with his 

 example, and before I left at 4.30 I got another trout 

 of one pound nine ounces with the same pattern, while 

 my friend owed to it his brace of trout. 



I left him attempting to negotiate a trout of two and a 

 half pounds or so. It was two pounds nine ounces, as a 

 matter of fact, for I got him next week-end. There was 

 an admirable procession of red spinners coming down the 

 water, and, though there were few fish moving, this was 

 one of them. He was taking with that head and back 

 fin and tail sort of rise which, to the initiated, indicates 

 spinner-taking; and in an interval between the puffs of 

 down-stream north-wester my Pheasant tail reached him 

 aright, and next moment was pulled home. 



Several other trout were hooked and landed, and hooked 

 and lost, to that pattern during that week-end with red 

 spinner on the water, and I came to the conclusion that 

 I had long neglected a very useful pattern, in particular, 

 in the long hot evenings of July, August, and September, 

 when the blue-winged olive is on, and the deep ruddy 

 brown sherry spinner is plentiful. 



It is, however, not of an evening only that the spinner 

 is a taking fly. It is often a tender memory to the morning 

 trout, and a fish found feeding before the general rise 

 begins is usually taking spinners, and is very accessible 

 to the temptation of a good imitation. 



. 6. RUSTY SPINNER. 



From the time when the pale watery dun first puts in 

 an appearance to the end of the season, one of the most 

 useful of chalk-stream patterns for evening use is the 

 Little Rusty Spinner. Tied on Bartleet's B. No. 7362 

 (a square-bent, slightly snecked, down-eyed hook) of 

 No. 14 size (about equivalent in this make to No. 00), with 



