144 FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 



rivers again the end of September and October. It is a 

 very good fly for Wales. 



MAYFLY FISHING. 

 THE MAYFLY, GREENDRAKE, OR CADDOW. 

 THIS fly comes out about the 25th of May and lasts, 

 generally, about three weeks. The Mayfly season has a 

 great attraction for numbers of anglers, and I know many 

 men, who fish during it, that never wet a line during the 

 rest of the year. I do not understand the reason for 

 this, except that any novice can kill a few fish with it 

 when they are taking it kindly, but as far as regards the 

 imitation they seldom do this more than one season out 

 of four or five. 



I have always remarked that when the duration of 

 fly on the water has been unusually extended so that you 

 might see some of them out in the beginning of July, 

 fish never seemed to feed greedily on them, even at the 

 commencement of the rise. 



The chief thing is to have heavy water, as fish will 

 take this fly in higher and also more coloured water than 

 they will any other, but at the season it comes out the 

 probability is that the water is too low and too fine to 

 fish so large a fly properly. 



During the time that it is out trout are generally to be 



