LAKE TROUT FLIES 



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Duns and spinners, as before- 

 mentioned, of various shades. 



The March brown. 



The cow-dung. 



*The gravel bed (this is only 

 indispensable where it is found). 



The black gnat and quill gnat. 



The alder. 



Green and *grey drakes. 



The coch-y-bondu. 



The sedge fly. 



*The blue and green midges. 



The red and black ants. 



The August dun. . 



The cinnamon. 



*The needle brown. 



The willow fly. 



*The barm fly. 



The white and *brown moths. 



The Francis. 



The governor. 



The coachman. 



Hammond's adopted. 



The Holland's fancy. 



The soldier palmer. 



The grouse and partridge hackles. 



The flies with a star against them are those which the 

 angler may best venture to omit if he finds even this list too 

 long. The remainder I look on as indispensable for general 

 work. Of course, if the angler knows and fishes any particular 

 river, he may get through the season well enough perhaps with 

 a bare dozen of flies. If he wanders at all, he will do well to 

 have all the above flies, and specially and particularly the 

 duns and spinners. Most people have preferences, and I 

 have mine, and if I were to choose the two flies which I do most 

 with in the course of a year, I would select the alder and the 

 yellow dun in various shades, and next to them the blue dun 

 sedge, soldier palmer, and the governor. 



LAKE TROUT FLIES 



These flies are legion, each lake and each professor on that 

 lake having his own varieties, which are not governed by any 

 rules but those of fancy, and being imitations of nothing in 

 nature, the patterns are endless. I shall give a few which 

 I know to be general killers more particularly in Scotland, 

 though no doubt equally good all over the kingdom. 



The most favourite wings are dark mallard and the barred 

 feather of the teal ; to these may be wedded almost any body 

 and legs and they will kill more or less. 



The size very much depends on the depth of the water, 

 but from 5 or 6 to 8 or 9 hooks will be about the range, though 

 smaller are often used. 



i. Teal wing ; red cock's hackle from head to tail ; a dirty rusty 

 black silk body, with or without gold thread. 



