ON THE RIVER YORE, BACKFALL. 



THE CLASSES. 



TROUT, Grayling, and Smelt, the treasures of the streams 

 and the delight of the flyfisher, feed on numbers of natural 

 flies of different kinds, which for better distinction may be 

 divided into the following classes. Each class contains many 

 distinct species or families that differ from each other in their 

 sizes and colors, but are alike in their shape and construction, 

 which classes them naturally together not to be mistaken. 

 The classification of shape with the descriptions of sizes and 

 color, may serve as guides to the different species of each 

 class, with a view that they may be distinguished and known 

 whenever they meet the eye of the fly fisher. 



IST. BROWNS. The browns claim priority in the ang- 

 ler's list, they are #11 bred in the water, and are of the. same 

 shape and construction as the stone fly, which is the largest 

 of the class, and the needle brown is the smallest ; they 

 have three shoulder joints that join together in a line with 

 the head and body, which gives the length and cylindrical 



