35 2 The Trouts of America 



quent, I noticed, at the pool which I had fished, 

 overhanging bushes, which were brushed with 

 the shoulders as I trudged campward, and from 

 them black crickets were jumping and numbers 

 of them falling into the water. 



In many waters, particularly the smaller streams 

 of New York and other Eastern Middle states, 

 large, gaudy flies are not the most alluring, and 

 knowing anglers use sombre-colored ones, such 

 as the Alder, Gray Drake, Cinnamon, Cowdung, 

 Yellow-bodied Professor, Coachman, and others 

 similarly dressed. The wings and tails should 

 be small, and the reds, yellows, and greens of sub- 

 dued shades. A very killing artificial on any 

 trout waters and in all sections, I have found to 

 be a nondescript without a name, although it is 

 somewhat similar to a tailless Professor. It has 

 a dull yellow body with one spiral winding of 

 black silk ; very small brown, gray, or cinnamon 

 wings, with little white spots on them; no tail, 

 and it is tied on a No. 14 Sproat hook and even 

 smaller ones. I have found flies, almost minute, 

 dressed on hooks Nos. 18 to 22 to be killing, 

 when all others failed to allure. They are partic- 

 ularly serviceable when, as the shades of evening 

 thicken, the trout are seen leaping and evidently 



