62 LIST OF FLIES. 



brown, red brown, checkwing, iron blue, dark, and 

 light drakes ; also the light and freckled duns, etc., 

 are all hatching and on the water, more or less, daily ; 

 and the gravel spinners in their best perfection. All 

 these are first-rate day flies for trout, and may be used 

 at the times of hatching, or such as are most numerous 

 on the water, or the fish are taking. Any others hith- 

 erto mentioned, may be selected from the list, and tried 

 with or without the hackles. Some of the duns and 

 drakes assemble, on warm evenings, this month ; and 

 lay their eggs on the water, which commences evening 

 fishing. The three superiors the stone fly, green 

 drake, and red dun are in conjunction this month. 

 The stone fly commences her imperial reign about the 

 eighth, and the green drake about the twenty-fourth. 

 When the weather is genial, at the times of hatching 

 and coming on the water of these two flies, the trout 

 generally take their fulth of them in preference to all 

 others, when the natural flies only can succeed ; but if 

 rude, westling weather then prevails, it gives good 

 imitations a chance. The red dun is a fine large night 

 fly, when she may be taken ; but she is not much used 

 or noticed by the craft. 



