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blow braves the chilling day. The observant 

 angler makes a practical use of all this, and 

 frames his mimic art accordingly.' 



The intelligent reader will find, in the above 

 extract, hints that will serve as a safe clue to much 

 interesting and useful information. He will be 

 inclined to think that a partial knowledge at least 

 of entomology will be necessary to make him a 

 perfect fly-fisher. He will find that each month 

 produces its particular flies, with some that are 

 common to most months and waters, and with 

 imitations of these he will angle. He will find 

 that the first spring flies are generally olive- 

 coloured, reddish, and brown ; that as spring ad- 

 vances, various duns, not as yet very light ones, 

 come on, together with larger flies of mottled 

 wings, and yellow and dark bodies. In the last 

 spring month appear such flies as the little and 

 large May-fly, precursors of more gaudy ones for 

 summer-tide; and in early autumn he will find 

 gnats, transparent duns, cinnamon-coloured flies, 

 ant-flies, and, as the season declines, the spring 

 flies, olive and green, reappear. This information 

 is important. 



In dressing flies, precise colour is of more im- 

 portance than exact shape. If the colour^of your 

 materials be bad, it is in vain for you to be correct 

 in shape. You must, therefore, ascertain the 

 colours of the living flies, and match them by 



