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ing it into account that he cannot be sure some 

 other fly would not do quite as well. Major 

 Traherne in the Badminton Library speaks of 

 this change of mind as to flies in the salmon, and 

 mentions one violent revolution as to what was 

 wanted on the River Usk, in Monmouthshire, 

 where the change has been from a fly with a 

 dirty yellow body, blue or red cock's hackle, and 

 brown wing, to what is called the " Usk grub," a 

 wingless fly of tinsel chenille and coch-y-bon-dhu 

 hackle in joints. I have tried this fly on the 

 Restigouche often, but never with any success, 

 though I have taken fish on a brown hackle trout 

 fly, and on a bunch of fur from a squirrel's tail 

 tied on the shank of a hook. The Beaufort 

 Moth, a white-winged fly with peacock-herl body, 

 much like the Coachman, I have used with 

 good results for late evening fishing, from dusk 

 until pitch dark (the best time for the long, 

 smooth, flowing stretches), until last season, when, 

 after vainly trying the white fly for two evenings, 

 I changed to a " Causapscal," an all yellow fly of 

 the same size, No. i, and had thereafter fair sport 

 on that and some other flies quite as different 

 from the white one. A fish may not be in the 

 rising humor at eight o'clock, but at one minute 



