62 DRY-FLY FISHING 



we cannot say, but we have certainly never seen 

 trout taking them. In this there is an assumption 

 that trout have a memory for flavour ; but no one 

 who has seen the avidity with which they rise to 

 the Iron Blue duns, and the accuracy with which 

 they single the little morsels out from amid other 

 flies, as well as the suddenness of the fate of the first 

 arrival of a hatch, can doubt that the supposition 

 is justified. 



Many anglers will associate the sedge-flies with 

 the few hours of semi-darkness in June and July, 

 and will no doubt recall happy times spent on 

 smooth-flowing shallows, when the trout quietly 

 stopped the progress of the slowly-moving flies and 

 valiantly fought to regain their liberty. The dry- 

 fly fisher has these memories ; but he will content 

 himself with them and not seek to renew them, for 

 he has all the sport he requires in the full light of 



day or the grey of gloaming, 

 when he can follow the fate 

 of his fly and answer every 

 wile of his plunging captive. 



Members of the Trichoptera 

 are readily recognised by the 

 long pent-shaped wings droop- 

 ing over the body. 



The Perlidce or stone-flies 

 are relatively of small im- 

 portance to the dry-fly man. 

 Needle Broain. They inhabit quick-flowing 

 (Perlid&LC) strong streams, not one spec- 

 ies, so far as we have ob- 

 served, selecting still water for its habitation. By 

 far the best known is Perla maxima, a deadly 



