72 LIST OF FLIES. 



amber drake, with all her kindred of red drakes ; the 

 red dun, with all her nightly trains of duns, throng 

 the waters, and are taken by the fishes, through the 

 shades of night; but the princely trout prefers the 

 Imperial fly. The fairy queen, with the day tribes : 

 the browns, drakes, and duns, spinners, house flies, 

 and beetles, revel their rounds through the lengthy 

 light warm day ; but when the Queen appears in sunny 

 splendour, she eclipses all, and foils the craftsman's 

 mimic art ; and, be it remembered, that foul days for 

 the Queen are fine days for the Empress. The vast 

 variety of flies their various times of hatching, and 

 appearance on the water with the varying tastes of 

 the fish render variety the order of the day, extend- 

 ing through the night. On seasonable days, in the 

 morning part, when flies are thin on the water, the 

 black gnat, needle brown, and house fly, may be tried, 

 along with the hackles. In the forenoon the aquatics 

 of last month are hatching and out, when the light, 

 mottled, and bio browns, the checkwing (hatching nu- 

 merous, and probably the best), light and dark drakes, 

 may be tried ; and as they decline, in the afternoon, 

 tribes of smaller flies increase ; when the needle and 

 yellow brown (yellow Sally), little light, and little dark 

 drakes (some in their red dresses), the little freckled 

 dun, black and blue gnats, etc., may be fished until or 

 after sunset, when the larger drakes and duns come 

 out for twilight fishing. Any of these flies may be 

 changed for any of the others, during fishing hours, as 

 circumstances may require ; and any that are not taken, 

 change for those that are ; for change and variety is 

 the order of the day. 



