5o Trouting- Flies. 



discrimination in preferring the genuine article 

 when they can get it, the angler's imitation in 

 such circumstances will bring him little success. 

 If the banks are destitute of trees, and the day be 

 wet, it sometimes affords good sport. 



It is dressed with hare's ear for the body, with 

 light side of a feather from the wing of the partridge 

 or cock pheasant, tied with brown and yellow silk 

 on a No. 2 hook. I prefer the pheasant dressing. 



8. The Yellow Dun. This is a small yellow fly 

 which comes on the water towards the middle of 

 May, when the days are warm and sunny. It lasts 

 for several weeks ; and during that time the trout 

 show such a predilection for the natural fly that 

 the imitation is not of much account. For my part 

 I seldom use it. 



Dress with straw-coloured silk, yellow hackle, 

 and canary-wing on a No. 1 hook. 



9. The May-Fly, or Stone-Fly of some authors, or 

 Green Drake of others. There are many pretenders 

 to the title of the May-fly. Cotton enumerates four 

 the green drake, the stone-fly, the black fly, and 

 the little yellow May-fly, " all of which," says he, 

 " have their champions and advocates to dispute 

 and plead their priority, though I do not under- 

 stand why the two last-named should the first 

 two having so manifestly the advantage, both in 

 their beauty and the wonderful execution they do 



