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THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



Fig- 5- 



good 



ii. 



Green drake or May-fly. 



12. Another pattern of same. 



13. The stone-fly. 

 March brown. 

 Red spinner. 



larva. 



14 



1 6. 



The winged 



Black gnat, very 

 for clear water. 



6. Hare-leg. 



7. Yellow Sally. 



8. Oak-fly. 



9. The caperer. 



10. The winged palmer. 



Mr. Francis Francis gives the following list of flies as sufficient 

 for general purposes : 



The cinnamon. 

 The willow-fly. 

 White moth. 

 The Francis. 

 Whickham's fancy. 

 The governor. 

 The coachman. 

 Hofland's fancy. 



of various 



The soldier palmer. 

 The grouse and 

 hackles. 



partridge 



Duns and spinners 



shades. 



The March brown. 

 The cow-dung. 



The black gnat and quill gnat. 

 The alder. 

 Green drake. 

 Coch y bonddu. 

 Sedge-fly. 



Red and black ants. 

 The whirling dun. 



Mr. Cholmondeley-Pennell, who is well known as a successful 

 angler and writer upon angling, asserts that three flies of certain 

 fancy patterns of his own invention are sufficient for all times and 

 seasons. I have never tried his flies, but I mean to do so next 

 year on the clear waters of Coquet ; but his theory that trout only 

 look at the general resemblance in colours of the artificial fly to 

 the prevailing insect, is borne out in my mind by the fact that, 

 when I was a youngster, I used to fish in the Welsh streams all 

 the season with only three flies the March brown, blue dun, and 

 coch y bonddu and I was at least as successful as other fishermen. 

 Mr. Pennell's flies are respectively green, brown, and yellow 

 hackles. These flies may be obtained at the principal tackle shops. 



In fishing with the dry fly, the angler waves his fly in the air a 

 few times until it is dry and will float (the fly being specially 

 structed), and casts where he sees the large fish rising. 





