178 SUMMER FISHING. 



Should it, however, be a wet season cloudy 

 and showery weather prevailing you will be 

 likely to get good sport in the day time, captur- 

 ing probably large, and certainly well-conditioned 

 fish. Fine tackle is indispensable, and our tables 

 will furnish an ample variety of flies. The iron 

 blue and yellow dun may be still continued in 

 clear water ; and when the wind is very high, or 

 the water stained, they may be changed for the- 

 alder fly and the red ant, dressed on No. 3. hooks. 

 We allude, more particularly, to rivers unfre- 

 quented by the May fly, for on May fly rivers, 

 June is the angler's best and busiest month. On 

 them the principal flies used at that time, and 

 sometimes for a week previously, are the May fly 

 and the grey drake, dressed on No. 6. hooks, and 

 varied occasionally with the red palmer, the alder 

 fly, the ants, and some other kinds. The Welch- 

 man's button is also a favourite with some anglers 

 in windy weather. It should be dressed thickly 

 and compactly on a hook No. 3., or even 4. if the 

 water be discoloured as well as ruffled. The 

 May fly is generally used for the stretcher, and 

 the grey drake for the dropper, particularly in 

 the evening. If the river be very weedy a drop- 

 per had certainly better be dispensed with, as re- 

 commended in a previous chapter, and either the 



