AMERICAN TROUT-STREAM INSECTS 



some artificial fly and can be used as a floater, fished 

 over smooth places near the willows and alder 

 bushes. 



No. 19. Glossy -fly. An ugly-looking black in- 

 sect, quite plentiful among the willows and flying 

 about the alder leaves that overhang the water, 

 hunting and feeding on smaller insects. The body 

 is glossy black, with brown-gray wings. The imi- 

 tation, as here shown, will doubtless prove a good 

 lure if used as a floating fly near bushes; for the 

 natural insect floats fairly well with wings cocked 

 over the body. 



On the Beaverkill, where this insect was cap- 

 tured, black and dark flies are greater favorites 

 than flies with light wings and body, in the early 

 season before the green and gray drakes are on the 

 wing. This will be the case, no doubt, in other lo- 

 calities. 



No. 20. Bluebottle. This represents the well- 

 known bluebottle fly, of which there are many ex- 

 amples in various sizes. These insects are always 

 more abundant near farms and dwellings or near 

 refuse cast along the stream at the outside of vil- 

 lages. It makes a handsome artificial fly, and can 

 be used as a floater or, with extra long hackle, 

 played as a buzz fly, and fished over smooth places 

 near the willow and alder bushes. Bluebottles are 

 often driven to midstream on windy days, and, as 

 they cannot float, are drowned. They kick frantic- 



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