60 DRY-FLY FISHING 



summer, afford one the most frequent oppor- 

 tunities of observing this final emergence. They 

 settle anywhere and everywhere, on stone and rock, 

 weeds and gravel, and even on the angler's person. 

 The fragile spinners have but one care and one 

 occupation, the perpetuation of the species ; they 

 cannot feed, but spend all their time in airy dance 

 and visits to the stream for the purpose of laying 

 their eggs. When these duties are over, they fall 

 exhausted, lifeless on the water, but the whole 

 wonderful cycle has begun, and in due course the 

 duns and spinners will greet us by the river. 



To the Trichoptera, 

 the flies of the hairy 

 wing, belong the sedge- 

 flies and caddis-flies. 

 They likewise spend a 

 life of infinite variety 



Cinnamon Sedge. and st i r ring change. 



They are found in 

 every type of water, 

 running and still, and no one can have failed to 

 observe the fluttering clouds of flies so plentiful 

 on summer days and evenings, or the curious abodes 

 of the larvae or caddis-worms, as they are called. 

 In one respect the larvae of the many species are 

 alike in that they manufacture for themselves 

 tubular homes which they decorate on the outside 

 in fashions distinguishing the various species with 

 sand, gravel, shells, or straws, and so cunningly 

 are these tubes constructed that by reason of an 

 ingenious admixture of materials their density is 

 only slightly greater than that of water. The 

 larva protrudes its head and its six feet and moves 



