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very difficult to imitate) will be found useful. Thamet 

 trout will take the fly well, particularly in the early morn- 

 ings and evenings. Dipping is the only plan of catching 

 them in the sunny mid-days, but the angler should keep 

 well out of sight. Loch trout-fishing may be successfully 

 practised when a " flush " is found ; a well-scoured bait in 

 rising water will be found the best. In falling water fish, 

 as a rule, are gorged with food, and indifferent to the most 

 tempting morsel. 



July. — ^The glorious summer is now upon us, and the 

 eventide is beautiful in its soft delicious loveliness. The 

 waters are low, and the salmon is scarcely to be tempted ; 

 a nice fly, sunk a few inches beneath the surface, will, how- 

 ever, sometimes tempt him. A neat bunch of lobworms 

 or a spinning-minnow may be tried as a change for his 

 lordship. The sea-trout and grUse in some rivers wiD 

 afford good sport, if tempted with a silver horn, with its 

 ringed, black, and silver body — the golden-eyed gauge wing, 

 red and black ant-flies, the July dun, the " hopper," (which 

 is sometimes too famUiar,) are the best flies. Moths are 

 more suitable in the evening. Grubs and larvse of all kinds 

 will be freely taken — meal-worms, and the wasp, grub, 

 toughened, wiU add to the angler's resources in July. A 

 cockroach is not despised by trout. Chub, dace, barbel, 

 carp, gudgeon, &c., begin to bite freely. Look out for the 

 dace with a small fly in shallow running streams, and chub 

 under the friendly shade of the bushes with a palmer-fly. 

 The cheese paste wiU not be rejected by the latter gentle- 

 man, and barbel will take the same morsel freely. Eoach, 

 perch, and jack are still suffering from the effects of spawn- 

 ning, but not so in 



August. — For it is the bottom-fisher's carnival On 



