128 AET OP ANGLING. 



a little yellow cotton round the shank, the proper, 

 length of the body, and wind the Indian rubber 

 neatly over it; fasten under the wings. This fly 

 appears in the end of May, but the principal time 

 for using it is from the first to the twelfth of June, 

 from ten in the morning till seven in the evening. 



GliET DRAKE. No. 15. 



This fly appears at the same time as the last 

 mentioned, and very much resembles it in shape. 

 The wings are made of a dark grey feather of a 

 mallard ; the body of light goat's hair, or white 

 ostrich's harl, striped with dark silk; the legs of a 

 grizzled cock's hackle; the head of peacock's harl, 

 and the tail of three hairs from a sable muff or 

 fitchew's tail ; the hook No. 6. Some anglers vary 

 the body of this fly by warping with ash-coloured 

 silk and silver twist. It is chiefly to be fished with 

 in the evening, after the yellow May Fly has disap- 

 peared, that is, from seven o'clock till dark. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON EPHEMERAL FLIES, 

 APPLIED PARTICULARLY TO THE TWO PRECEDING* 



" This species of insect is named ephemeral, 

 because of its very short existence in the fly state. 



