88 LIST OF FLIES. 



through the day. The drakes are numerous in species 

 and varieties, particularly the smaller tribes, which 

 swell their numbers above any other class. The check- 

 wing, light and dark drakes (watchets) in their grades 

 of sizes and shades ; with the iron blues, are hatching 

 on the surface of the water, in the fore and afternoons ; 

 when many are snapt by the fishes, in the face of the 

 unconscious angler, before they have used their wings. 

 The duns are hatching ; the second swarms of t^ie 

 light and freckled are turning out; which, with the 

 little freckled dun, may be tried in the day time, and 

 again in the evening. The spinners are numerous and 

 good natural baits. The ants sometimes fall numerous 

 on the waters this month, and are greedily taken by 

 the fish. 



SEPTEMBER. 



THE sun, with his summer, is departing ; but leaves a 

 full lap to declining autumn. Trout, the prince of the 

 sport, is in the wane ; the hour of his prime and his 

 beauty is passing. The merry Smelt and gliding Grayl- 

 ing, mingle their charms with the lovely days of au- 

 tumn. The air becomes thinned of towering tribes of 

 tiny flies ; but, the waters, the wonderful waters ! 

 half the life of our globe ; which fosters in fields of 

 ice the huge leviathan ; and nurtures in its warm 



