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Herefordshire from the beginning of June. The natural insect 

 is a small moth, glossy black, with very long black-and-white 

 horns, easily imitated with a strand of a teal feather. It is 

 very conspicuous on rank waterside herbage, and I rarely fail 

 to use the imitation along sedgy reaches. Finally, there is the 

 Derbyshire ' Bumble.' Of this queer fly I know nothing, save 

 that I have killed with it, and have seen it successful in the 

 hands of local anglers about Bakewell, Rowsley, &c. I have 

 seen it tied with all manner of colours, but always with a fat 

 body of smooth floss silk, ribbed with some bright short- 

 stranded hackle. Its special oddity lies in its plumpness. 



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 DERBYSHIRE BUMBLE 



Seen in contrast with the ordinary Derbyshire flies slender 

 and almost midge- like things it looks like Major Monsoon 

 among a squad of light horse. What is it taken for? Not the 

 veritable bumble, surely, which a trout rarely meddles with, 

 and if in a whimsical mood he sucks it in, eschews without 

 chewing. The 'great representative principle' seems quite at 

 fault. Can it be meant for one of the local Cokoptcra ? Beetle 

 beadle Bumble ! A plausible derivation. 



Having now given some general hints as to the best mode 

 of fishing a stream, with some practical suggestions as to the 

 choice of flies, I find that there is a good deal yet to be done 

 ere the 1 particular fish whom I have in my mind's eye takes up 

 his proper quarters in the basket. My fly or flies are such as 



