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aquatic flies are strong at hatching, and on seasonable days 
soon out of the reach of the fish. The red drakes and the 
duns come out numerous for evening and twilight fishing. 
The bustard enters the month in full force, and may be fished 
so long as she continues. In the early part of the season when 
flies are few, fish rise freely and give good sport ; but, as the 
vital heat of the sun keeps increasing so do the flies; and 
after the fish are fatted with the stone fly, green drake, 
etc., the sport languishes, and July and August, the two 
centre months, and most salubrious of the season, are gene- 
rally considered the worst for flyfishing ; the variety of food 
and easy circumstances of the fish, lessen the chance of suc- 
cess, and require the flyfisher to be more particular and 
nearer the mark than in the spring. Good imitations of 
the favorite flies, fished naturally at their time of hatching, 
can only keep pace with the choice of the fish, and on 
healthsome cool breezy days, which whet up their appetites, 
the flyfisher may have good sport. 
AUGUST. 
THE lofty swift prunes her wing for departure, first index 
toa change. No longer do sportive swarms of flies feed 
her in her airy tracks. Numbers of tiny tribes now end 
their summer trip ; and less and less are the numbers that 
succeed ; but still the waters, the storehouses of the angler, 
pour forth daily supplies. “All's fish that comes to the 
net.” Trout, grayling, and smelt! how beautiful to the 
flyfisher as he dishes them from his pannier. The full-ripe 
trout feeds secure at the bottom, or with majestic caution 
rises scrupulous at the well scanned fly; or like the mon- 
arch of the wood, “ fleshes his tooth” in his nightly prowls. 
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