28 ALL ABOUT TROUT FISHING. 



shades, selecting a dark fly, a brown or 

 red fly, and a light coloured fly, and you 

 will thus ascertain the right colour. 



Flies are the most important lures in 

 the angler's equipment. In our rivers we 

 have two types of flies, the winged fly and 

 spider or hackle. The former is decidedly 

 the closer imitation of the natural insect, 

 but the latter is out and out the most 

 deadly. 



The following varieties are amongst the 

 first flies to make their appearance at the 

 opening of the trouting season, of course 

 providing the weather is favourable to the 

 hatching of insect life. The little Winter 

 Brown, dressed from the dark feathers of 

 woodcock, with dark brown and light 

 brown bodies, and the Light Woodcock 

 with orange body, are amongst the first 

 arrivals. 



Waterhen, with yellow body and least 

 speck of gold tinsel on tail of body; male 

 and female March Browns ; Greenwell's 



