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or dun drake, and great red spinner ; and any of these 

 are well-proved and successful flies in England ; but in 

 this country the fact is, that even in the warmest regions 

 in which the American brook-trout is found, the natural 

 fly of any kind is scarcely on the water at all at this 

 season ; and that one is just as likely as the other. 

 April brings' the golden dun midge, the sand fly, the 

 .stone fly, the grannom, or green tail, the yellow dun, the 

 iron-blue dun, the jenny-spinner, and the hawthorn fly. 

 The third, fourth, and fifth of which will be found very 

 tempting during the whole period of spring fishing ; as 

 will also, or perhaps I should -say, more so, the yellow 

 May dun, the black gnat, the downhill fly, the Turkey 

 brown, little dark spinner, yellow Sally, fern fly, or 

 soldier, alder fly, and green and gray drake, which may 

 be regarded as particularly, according to the doctrin- 

 aires, the flies of the month. I confess that I am not 

 myself a believer in the use of particular flies, for par- 

 ticular months or seasons, except as regards particular 

 waters ; and, in fact, such an application is utterly 

 impossible in a country of the extent of the trout-fishing 

 region of North America ; where the months and the 

 very seasons differ by twenties and forties of degrees. 

 The trout-fishing region of North America may be said, 

 generally, to extend from ISTova Scotia and Lower 

 Canada, eastward to the feeders of Lake Superior on the 

 west, and from the extreme northern seas to the Atlantic 

 coasts, eastward of the Hudson. Westward of that 



