110 ANGLING. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



TROUT FLIES. 



AND now we must say a word or two as to that important 

 subject, flies. The best flies to use are imitations of those 

 which are born in the water ; for, though trout will often 

 take land flies, and indeed almost any insect you can 

 throw on the water, yet it is on the water-flies which he 

 chiefly depends for his sustenance, and these are the flies 

 which, for the most part, fill the following list : 



LIST OP FLIES FOR EACH MONTH. 



March. The blue dun, hare's ear, the March brown, 

 the coch-y-bonddhu,* and sometimes the olive dun. You 

 rarely want more than these flies, though in some rivers a 

 little creeper is found. 



April. All the last month's flies, with the olive dun, 

 rvjd spinner, and on bright days the yellow dun. 



May. Many of the old flies are good still, though the 

 March brown begins to give place to the alder ; and the 

 blue dun only shows now and then in cold days. The 

 black gnat often shows up strong. The duns now vary 

 from yellow or almost green to the palest lemon, and where 



* Dress this large, about March brown size, and rib with 

 gold tinsel, and it is a capital rough water fly, to use wet all the 

 season nearly. 



