42 LIST OF FLIES. 



They are imitated with feathers from the landrail, 

 brown owl, dotterell, brown hen, etcetera ; with tawny, 

 coppery colored silks, of lighter or darker shades. 



NOTE FOR APRIL. This genial and life-cheering 

 month teems with sport for the flyfisher. Hungry 

 trout and smelt in abundance, unscathed through win- 

 ter and the streams ample, they forage and feed with- 

 out fear or scruple. Any of the flies hitherto described 

 that may be hatching or on the water, may be fished this 

 month; the needle, dark, light, red, mottled, and bio 

 brown, with the Royal Charlie ; the blue, brown, check- 

 wing, iron blue, dark brown, and dark Drakes ; the plover, 

 freckled, and light duns, etc. ; or in the language of the 

 craft, who have handed down the feathers rather than 

 the flies the snipe bio, inside and outside of woodcock, 

 landrail, partridge tail, partridge grey, fox-cub, hen 

 pheasant, partridge brown, water-hen and orange, plo- 

 ver bio, moorcock, brown owl, etcetera. By those tra- 

 ditional materials the craft along the banks of the 

 streams, both imitate and distinguish their flies, which 

 are the finest of the aquatic tribes for small flyfishing, 

 and are all in full force hatching and breeding daily. 

 The weather affects them : a fine warm time sets them 

 all afloat ; cold, coarse days, retard the tender tribes, 

 which, as they can snatch portions of sunshine, when 

 the wily trout, wide awake, sees all that passes and 

 snaps his favorite victim. The gravel spinners are in 

 good perfection, with the light, dark, and bio brown, 

 blue and brown drake, are good for the Ure the duns, 

 with the Royal Charlie, are good for the brooks, fished 

 with or without the gold and black silver hackle. 



