I2O Artificial- Fly Fishing. 



picious days days when even the siren sand-fly 

 fails to lure, and when the angler's tenantless bas- 

 ket speaks to him only of blighted hopes and fruit- 

 less toil. In these depressing circumstances, the 

 creeper, the caddis-bait, very small worms, and even 

 the minnow (fished up-stream), may help to retrieve 

 the fortune of the day, and prove the man an angler 

 still. 



When the rivers are in flood, bait-fishing in some 

 form or other must be resorted to; but in clear 

 water I should confine myself to the artificial fly, 

 the creeper, or the caddis, believing that, should 

 these fail, there is little to be hoped for from any 

 other lure until the appearance of the May-fly. 



June Fishing. The artificial flies best suited for 

 this month are still the sand - fly and the blaes. 

 The cast may be made up thus : 1, trail-fly teal- 

 drake, with red hackle ; 2, blae, as in March and 

 April ; 3, sand-fly ; 4, black, blae, or iron-blue dun ; 

 5, hare's-ear dun or autumn dun; 6, sand-fly; 7, 

 blae ; 8, hare's-ear dun ; 9, blae. 



Success may still attend operations with the 

 artificial fly during the early days of the month, 

 especially in a black water after a small flood ; and 

 the sand-fly may be very effective in the upper 

 reaches of the stream, where it is later in appear- 

 ing. But as the May-fly is then at the height of 

 its popularity with the trout, the angler must con- 



