ARTIFICIAL FLIES. 6og 



fully as bait at all hours. They have a double advantage, their 

 colors approximating so closely to several species of Phryi:[aniiia 

 that they may be considered as representing three or four different 

 insects. 



" The black May is one of the favorite forms in the same section 

 as the preceding. There are species having these colors at all 

 hours and all seasons on the water. In some the ventral surface 

 is clothed with a shaggy grey hair. These walk or glide over the 

 surface of the water with remarkable rapidity, and have a decided 

 dislike to leave it. 



" The Epheinexina named for April will appear in May on 

 mountain and tributary streams, on all the streams that remain 

 open during the winter. They hybernate as active larvje and 

 pupse, and if ice were formed, or partly formed, they would perish. 



" In addition to this section, there is the great dun {Baetis 

 longicauda), and its image, the red spinner. The latter in form 

 and color approximates so closely to several different species that 

 it has been used successfully throughout _the summer. The yel- 

 low May (Clceon striata), appears usually about the middle of 

 May and continues through June. 



" To continue the list of general summer flies, forms that have 

 made for themselves a name and history, but without prototypes 

 in nature, there is coachman, king of the water, gold spinner, 

 captain, soldier, kingdom, and the black, brown, red, and grey 

 palmers." 



Suitable Trout Flies for April. 



Black Gnat, or Mzdg-e, No. 13. — Body and feet, black ; wings subhyaline. 



Dark Claret Gnat, No. 13. — Body, dark claret ; feet, black ; wings, subhyaline. 



Bright Claret Gnat, No. 13. — Body, bright claret, mixed with red fox face ; feet 

 ginger ; wings of one sex, hyaline, the other, ocherous. 



Grey Gnat, No. 13. — Body, dark fox, mixed with dark claret ; feet, grey ; 

 wings, hyaline. 



Dark Fox, No. 10 or 11. — Body and feet, dark fox, mixed with lemon colored 

 mohair; wings, subhyaline ; tail, three fibres of dark grey hackle. 



Poor Man's Fly, Nos. g and 10. — Body and feet, hare's ear and yellow mixed ; 

 wings, slightly mottled grey ; tail the mottle of the wood duck. 



Olive Gnat, No. 13. — Body, dark olive, mixed with bright claret ; feet, ginger ; 

 wings, hyaline. 



Red Fox, Nos. 10 and 11.— Body, fox cub face, mixed with yellow ; feet, red 

 (chicken red) ; wings, pale grey or subhyaline ; tail, mottled feather wood duck. 



Bright Fox, Nos. 10 and 11. — Body and feet, brightest part of the fox, mixed 

 with yellow ; wings, brightest hyaline ; tail, pale yellow. 



Black Hackled Fly, Nos. 6 and 8.— Body, orange, ribbed with gold tinsel ; 

 hackle black wings ; tail, of the American partridge. 



Trout Flies for May. 



Black May, No. 10. — Body, black ; feet, black ; wings, greyish hyaline. 



Covi Dung, Nos. 10 and n.— Body and feet, brownish yellow ; wings, yellow- 

 grey. 



Great Dun, Nos. 9 and 8. Body, purple brown ; feet, grey brown ; wings, dark 

 grey hyaline ; setae, dark brown annulated with grey. 



