FLIES FOE MAY. 113 



three hairs from the rabbit's whisker. Hook, 

 Nos. 5 , 6, and 7. Another way : Body, yellow- 

 green mohair; wings, mallard's feather dyed yel- 

 low a black head; legs, yellowish hackle; tail, 

 three hairs from a black bear. A third way 

 (Blacker's): Body, yellow silk ribbed with 

 brown silk, and a narrow strip of fine transparent 

 gold-beater's skin wound over all, through which 

 the yellow and brown ribbed body will appear 

 naturally ; wings, as before ; legs, a yellow griz- 

 zled dun-hackle ; tail as before. 



During the season of the May- fly, should the 

 weather be gloomy, with a strong warm wind, I 

 would angle with three flies of different sizes, 

 and having the wings of colours slightly differing, 

 and one made buzz without erect wings ; because 

 doing so would afford me three different chances 

 of success. 



No. 50. The grey-drake is said to be a metamor- 

 phosis of the green-drake, or female changed to a 

 male. This fly is seldom a good angling one, and 

 never kills well except towards evening. Dress it 

 thus: Body, exactly like that of Blacker's last 

 green-drake, but the wings are to be made of the 

 light-grey mallard feather not dyed. Hook, Nos. 

 7 and 8. 



During the prevalence of the May-fly, trout 

 fatten and grow into condition. They are never 

 so before that fly appears, and when it has disap- 

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