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are identical with those recommended for July and 

 hot weather. 



The trout season must close at latest at the end of 

 September, and during the re- 

 October, November and mainder of the year only gray- 

 December, ling should be killed. They 



are curious fish — some days 

 seem quite simple and others cute. On their days 

 one can literally fill a sack, and on their off days one 

 often goes home utterly beaten and with an empty 

 basket. They take iron-blue, olive and pale watery 

 duns and even at times smuts, so that there is no 

 difficulty in finding a variety of patterns, any one of 

 which may be the particular medicine they want. 

 Old standards such as adjutant blue, blue quill, little 

 marryat, quill marryat and curses are at times suc- 

 cessful. Fancy patterns such as wickhams, pink 

 wickhams, red, orange or macaw tags, furnace, orange 

 bumble and little chap are reliable patterns on all 

 the Hampshire streams, and probably all these will 

 kill elsewhere. 



It has been my aim in this chapter to give the 

 student the views of all schools of dry-fly men as to 

 the most killing patterns, whether they be the advo- 

 cates of my new set of patterns, votaries of the old 

 standard imitations of natural insects, or those who 

 pin their faith on fancy patterns. It would not be 

 fair on my part to leave this branch of the subject 

 without putting on record my own convictions. 



Personally I want nothing more than the thirty- 



