336 TROUT FISHING. 



than is approved by British anglers, and fish will not unfre- 

 quently here take a gaudy scarlet ibis feather with a gold tinsel 

 body, which a person who should use in Europe would not 

 improperly be thought raving mad. 



The flies which I hold the best are the red hackle, the ginger 

 hackle, the black hackle, occasionally varied with bodies of gold 

 or silver tinsel, the March-brown or dun- drake, the pale yellow 

 duu and the blue dun — both very killing flies — the cow-dung 

 fly, the stone fly, alder fly, the green and grey drakes ; and for 

 night and twilight fishing, any of the grey, cream-coloured, or 

 mealy moths ; of these I prefer a large white- winged moth with 

 a black body. In many waters some of the coppery-golden 

 and green peacock herls are found to kill well, and last season 

 — 1848 — nothing was so successful on Long Island as the scarlet 

 ibis with a gold tinsel body. For my own fancy, however, I 

 decidedly prefer the hackles of almost every colour and variety, 

 from the ginger, through all the shades of cock, grouse, par- 

 tridge, woodcock, up to jet black ; and my favourite cast is a 

 coch-a-bondu or soldier palmer for my stretcher, a ginger hackle 

 or blue dun for my second, and a black palmer or a dottrel 

 hackle for my first dropper. 



All these, as also the large gaudy lake flies, marked No. 2 

 on the cut at page 328, which very nearly resembles the 

 Salmon-fly except in size only, and are deadly indeed to the 

 Trout of the Adirondack waters, were all prepared expressly 

 for representation in this work by Mr. Conroy, and are not 

 in my opinion to be surpassed. 



Beyond this I shall say nothing on the score of flies, nor shall 

 I enter into any minute and elaborate description of these or 



