264 THE ANGLER S GUIDE. 



Stone- Fly, called the Water- Cricket, or Creeper, while in 

 the state orforrn of a maggot. 



The stone-fly escapes from the husk or case before 

 his wings are sufficiently grown, so as to enable him 

 to fly, and creeps to the crevices of stones^ in which 

 places they may be found, and from which circum- 

 stance the name is derived : they are found in 

 almost all Trout streams, or stony rivers, and are 

 known by the Angler for Trout as a killing bait 3 

 therefore many take the trouble of placing stones s 

 one on the other, so as to leave a hollow between, 

 that the fly may be sheltered from the wind until his 

 wings are full grown, which always occurs early in 3 

 May. The body of the stone-fly is long and thick,-, 

 of a brown colour, ribbed with yellow, and ha^.s 

 whisks at the tail, and two small horns on his head 

 when full grown, the wings are double, and of a i 

 dusky dark-brown colour. This fly has several legs,, 

 and uses them more than his wings, as you may 

 often find them padding on the top of the water, 

 only moving their legs. The three flies I have just 

 described, namely, the green-drake, the grey-drake, 

 and the stone-fly, are all known by the name of I 

 the may-fly. Although the green-drake, the grey- i 

 drake, and the stone-fly, are all termed may-flies, yet 

 the young Fly-fisherman should be apprised, that 

 when the may-fly is spoken of among Anglers, they / 

 generally mean the green-drake, or, as some call it, 

 the yellow may-fly, from the colour of its wings j and 



