28O THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [PART II. 



flies smaller, that are taken in April, will also be taken this 

 month, as also all Browns and Duns. And now I come to my 

 Stone-Fly, and Green-Drake, which are the Matadores for 

 Trout and Grayling; and, in their season, kill more fish in 

 our Derbyshire rivers than all the rest, past and to come, in 

 the whole year besides. 



But first I am to tell you, that we have four severaJ flies 

 which contend for the title of the May-fly : namely, 



The GREEN-DRAKE, 



The STONE-FLY, 



The BLACK-FLY, and 



The LITTLE YELLOW MAY-FLY. 



And all these have their champions and advocates to dispute, 

 and plead their priority ; though I do not understand why the 

 two last named should, the first two having so manifestly the 

 advantage, both in their beauty, and the wonderful execution 

 they do in their season. 



n. Of these, the GREEN-DRAKE comes in about the twenti- 

 eth of this month, or betwixt that and the latter end, for they 

 are sometimes sooner, and sometimes later, according to the 

 quality of the year ; but never well taken till towards the end 

 of this month, and the beginning of June. The STONE-FLY 

 comes much sooner, so early as the middle of April ; but is never 

 well taken till towards the middle of May, and continues to 

 kill much longer than the Green-Drake stays with us, so long 

 as to the end almost of June ; and indeed, so long as there are 

 any of them to be seen upon the water ; and sometimes in an 

 artificial fly, and late at night, or before sunrise in a morning, 

 longer. 



Now both these flies, and, I believe, many others, though I 

 think not all, are certainly and demonstratively bred in the 

 very rivers where they are taken : our Cadis or Cod-bait, 

 which lie under stones in the bottom of the water, most of 

 them turning into those two flies ; and, being gathered in the 



