12 BROOK AND RIVER TROUTING 



the Green Insect accounted for fish when September 

 gusts have strewn the river with leaves and green 

 fly, they hope they have not grown dogmatic in their 

 views and opinions on matters piscatorial. Neverthe- 

 less they are inclined to think that, the closer they 

 keep in shade and colour in their patterns to the 

 natural flies, the greater has been their success ; for, 

 although they can recall occasions on which the fish 

 would rise at almost anything, such occasions have 

 been few and far apart ; while the times when the 

 trout would only look at a particular fly of a particular 

 shade have been by far the more frequent in their 

 experience. Why deny fish the power to appreciate 

 variations of shade when they live in a world of colours, 

 and are clothed in such a beautiful and vari-coloured 

 mail ? If trout can appreciate tones of colour, how 

 different a fly must appear to them in different lights 

 and with different backgrounds. Such natural varia- 

 tions of surrounding light and landscape may have a 

 larger effect on ** the bag " than many think. 



For easy reference two tables of flies are given. 

 One, in which are set down the flies in the order in 

 which they may generally be fished through the 

 season, with the approximate times of their use, and 

 the other, with the flies tabled under the various trout 

 fishing months. 



It remains only to add, that the taking fly should 

 be fished as point, i.e., the fly farthest from the angler. 



