112 TROUT FISHING 



properly belonged to the Welshman's button or 

 caperer. I am not sure that the latter name is not 

 preferable on account of the confusion between the 

 Welshman's button of Hampshire and that of Wales. 

 Anyhow I had no knowledge of Sericostoma persona- 

 turn till Mr. Halford's new patterns opened my eyes. 

 Since then for chalk stream work I have used it 

 far more than the alder, principally because I find 

 it easier to see. It is not necessarily more effective. 

 More than once when I have been killing fish with 

 it I have afterwards found that another angler 

 close by has been doing equally well with an alder 

 of the same shape. 



The cowdung fly is one for which I have an affec- 

 tion, though I have used it but little of late years. 

 I have memories of cold blustering days in early 

 spring when these brown-coated creatures of dubious 

 habit were about the only sign of insect life. A 

 certain number get blown into the water, and so on 

 such days the pattern is certainly useful. It has 

 given me a good many trout in the past, and so I 

 generally have a few in my book in the present. 

 The Zulu is another fly of which I always carry a few 

 examples both for wet and dry-fly fishing, though 

 I do not often use it now. But I have once or twice 

 found it very valuable as a wet -fly when the water 

 has been rather thick, and, as for dry-fly work, I 



