46 FISHERMAN'S LURES 



It is because of this important fact that I have 

 made three new lures, the first ever made (so far 

 as I am aware) for trout fishing under adverse 

 fly-fishing conditions. No matter what part of the 

 season, early or late, these creepers should be 

 effective. 



Besides the creepers I have named — trout-hell- 

 grammite, caddis-creeper, and yellow nymph- 

 creeper — I have also made a nymph-creeper in 

 black to imitate the black dose insect, which ap- 

 pears about the middle of August, on wet days, 

 when many of these black creepers may be seen 

 climbing up the large boulders on the river side 

 where they soon change to the adult state and 

 take wing. There is also a dark insect for June 

 which I call the "Chocolate," quite large in size 

 but not nearly so abundant. These two imitations 

 copy faithfully the creeper state as they exist 

 in transit from the sub-imago to the imago state; 

 viz., as they exist while on their voyage to the 

 surface, there to emerge eventually and take flight 

 as a perfect insect. 



This new wingless nymph-creeper is the largest 

 in size of the many species of drake, which, though 

 they vary much in size and color, are exactly alike 

 in form. The entire body of the artificial is straw- 



