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in this case it becomes useless and must be replaced by a 

 living insect. The green drake is named the May fly 

 in the south of England and in Ireland ; this must not be 

 confounded with the stone fly, which also bears the name 

 of May fly in the north of England and Scotland. 



GreenheaPt, a tree of the natural order of Lauracce, 

 is a native of Guiana and Cuba, and grows in the greatest 

 perfection in the hills behind the alluvial lands. The wood 

 is dense, extremely strong and hard, and so heavy as to sink 

 in water. It takes a high polish, and is remarkable for its 

 elasticity, likewise be ng almost exempt from the attacks of 

 white ants and other wood-boring insects. It is the most 

 valuable wood that the rod maker can obtain, and is super- 

 seding all others in the manufacture of fishing rods. Owing 

 to its dense, oily nature, it takes a very long time to seaso^ 

 before it is fit to work for above purposes. 



Grilse (in some districts "grawl," in others "peel") is 

 the name given to the young salmon, which as a smolt 

 having descended the river to the sea, returns for the first 

 time to fresh water. It generally attains at this time about 

 the weight of five or six pounds, and as it spawns now and 

 does not increase in size when in fresh water, it is called 

 grilse until it returns a second time from the sea, when it is 

 called salmon, although it may not have yet attained its full 

 size. It requires a little experience to distinguish a large 

 grilse from a small salmon, as sometimes the former is the 

 larger of the two. A grilse has smaller scales, which are 

 very soft ; also longer fins, and the tail more forked. 

 Grilse are very lively, and give most exciting sport when 

 hooked. Flies, same as for salmon, with smaller hooks. 



Ground Bait is composed of various substances, 

 and used nearly always when coarse fish are about to be 



