46 ANGLING FOE GAME FISH. 



ing flies come out. Long after dark they will take a fly, which 

 may be a very large Coachman, Sedge, or White Moth. The 

 Coachman is similar to the Governor, but has white wings and 

 no tag. It was invented by a noted "whip." I use compara- 

 tively few flies, but those who like a more extended list will 

 find Ronald's in a foot-note.* 



Do not pay any attention to the dry-fly fishers who sneer 

 at wet-fly fishing, or at the wet-fly fishers who ridicule dry-fly 

 fishing. Learn both methods, and practise them as seemeth 

 you best. If trout, instead of taking the floating fly, try to 

 drown it, fish wet, and oblige them. Generally speaking, the 

 wet fly, except at night, is of little use on well-fished club waters, 

 where the trout are extraordinarily shy and wary, but it often 



kills better than the dry fly on 

 private waters. In wet-fly fishing, 

 there is no object in greasing the 

 line. 



Of late years, some of the salmon- 

 fishers' methods have been applied to 

 // 1' V' ""a fly-fishing for chalk- stream and other 



large trout. Small Silver Doctors, 

 Fig. 37. Ogden's Alexandra. ^., ^ n -rx , T»«-n 



Silver Greys, and Dusty Millers have 



(see Chapter IX.) been used, especially early in the season, with 



great effect; but the fly which has proved most deadly — so 



deadly that it is very properly barred on many waters — is the 



Alexandra. It is dressed in various ways, and is supposed to 



imitate a minnow. The one engraved in Fig. 37 was dressed 



by Ogden, of Cheltenham.f It is a killing pattern. 



* March.— Red Fly, Cock Wing, Early Red Spinner, Water Cricket, Great Dark 

 Drone, Cowdung, Peacock Fly, March Brown, Great Red Spinner. April.— Golden 

 Dun Midge, Sand Fly, Stone Fly, Gravel Bed, Grannom, Yellow Dun, Iron-blue 

 Dun, Jenny Spinner, Hawthorn. May.— Iditle Yellow May, Black Gnat, Oak Fly, 

 Turkey Brown, Little Dark Spinner, Yellow Sally, Sky Blue, Fern Fly, Alder. 

 June.— Green Drake, Grey Drake, Orange Dun, Coch-y-bondu, Dark Mackerel. 

 July.—Vsde Evening Dun, July Dun, Gold-eyed Gauze Wing, Wren Tail, Red Ant, 

 Silver Horns. Augiist.-Aufiust Dun, Orange Fly, Cinnamon. September.— Bine- 

 bottle, Whirling Blue Dun, Willow Fly. 



t Wings, peacock harl, with a few fibres of mallard and red feather (flamingo for 

 preference). Body, silver twist. Legs, a little black hackle. Tail, peacock harl, 

 and a few fibres of flamingo. It is a capital pattern. Another good pattern has 

 a little jungle cock and dark mallard in the wing besides the harl, and harl for 

 legs. Indeed, the fly can be varied in many ways, and will kill well, provided the 

 body is either sUver or peacock harl ribbed with silver, and there is some harl 

 in the wings. 



