OCTOBER. 89 
Spinner, little spinner.—Out among the grass most of the 
latter part of the day. 
House, lion, and bank flies, blue bottle, bronze beetle —Out, 
more or less, daily. 
Several species of ear wigs out daily, three-eighths, black 
ones probably the most numerous; and vast numbers of 
dark midges, of the house fly shape, were pouring out of the 
water, and may be found on the under-sides of loose stones 
by the water’s edge. 
Norte.—This is a good angling month, and may be called 
-the April of the later season. Trout, grayling, and smelt, 
are all good, although the trout may be somewhat declining 
and the others improving. Much of the summer top food 
of the fish, flies, insects, etc., have disappeared, from the 
change of temperature of the air, which has not affected 
the waters ; they are full of creepers, and are turning out 
numbers of flies daily. Many of the favorite aquatic flies 
of spring are in full force and numbers this month. Their 
shades of color must be attended to, and their sizes and 
parts natural in their imitations. The leaders for trout 
are nearly the same as for last month—the orange and 
needle browns, the checkwing, blue, dark, light, iron blue, 
and coral-eyed drakes, are taken as they hatch and come on 
the waters. 
OCTOBER. 
Tue cold breath of Autumn which creeps up in the dark, 
and shrivels the leaf, spares not the summer fly; they 
dwindle away with the declining warmth of the sun ; still 
the waters, faithful to their trust, on genial days pour out 
