32 LIST OF FLIES. 



if he refuse at first sight, he rarely stands bantering, 

 try about, hit the mark, and preserve the fly be handy 

 with the net, and days may be seen for every fly a trout. 

 Fish early and late, as darkness will allow, and on 

 drizzly days, which sometimes brings the flies out. At 

 times of flood, in May and June, trout are very vora- 

 cious, and screened by the thickness of the water, cry 

 havoc among minnows, bullheads, etc. ; but when 

 the flood has subsided and the waters are brown, the 

 stone fly comes in with great force. She is a true trier 

 of skill, and probably the best test of the general 

 merits of the flyfisher. Each rustic craftsman along 

 the banks of the winding streams, where the true art 

 and science of flyfishing is best known and practised, 

 greet with glee the presence of the stone fly she fills 

 his pannier with the finest trout replenishes his 

 pocket, his pipe, and his pot then in the village fo- 

 rum the happy angler sings and recounts achievements 

 glorious 



" O'er a* the ills of life victorious." 



Walbran, of Mickley, says he killed a trout about one 

 and three quarters pound weight, that had a hundred 

 stone flies in its stomach. The author killed one with 

 the minnow soon after sunset, in brown water, in the 

 mill race above Skellbank, which weighed near two 

 pounds, and had in his stomach four large bullheads 

 and a great old mouse, which all seemed as if just ta- 

 ken, but did not satisfy the trout, for he ran twice at 

 the minnow which cut short his evening forage. 



25TH. THE MALE STONE FLY is less in size and 



