CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 163 
Test, a river in the south of England, which is noted for its trout 
fishing and more particularly for the dry-fly branch of that art. 
Mrs. Tourist: You have quite a nice collection of flies in that box. 
I notice that they seem to be graded from quite dark flies to some 
that are nearly white in their general makeup. Is it necessary to 
have many different kinds of flies? 
Angler: Not absolutely. There are twelve different patterns there. 
As a general rule, there is sufficient variety in such a collection to 
find the right fly for the fish. The grasshopper fly is not there, but 
Fic. 45. Fly box and dry flies. Photograph by R. L. M. 
that fly is more or less a purely local pattern. By that I mean, it 
would be worse than useless, unless, the fish were feeding on “hoppers. 
Mrs. Tourist: What are the names of your flies? 
Angler: Well, here I have the red quill. These are Wickham’s 
fancies. For a very light-colored fly, I use this, which is called 
Kingsley’s cocktail spinner. The opposite, or the prince of darkness, 
is this one, which is known as Greenwell’s glory. This is the medium 
olive dun, and this one is the witchurch dun. Then here is that old 
standby the hare’s ear. This fly won distinction, for it was with it 
that the largest trout ever caught with the dry fly was hooked. 
Third Tourist: How big was it? 
Angler: It weighed twelve and three-quarters pounds and took one 
hour and a quarter to land. Its fortunate captor was the Reverend 
S. E. V. Filleul of Wareham. 
Third Tourist: Some fish, I’ll say so! 
Angler: This fly is the whirling blue dun, and here we have the 
pink lady, the invention of Mr. George M. La Branche of New York. 
This animal with no wings is Tup’s indispensable, which is supposed 
