430 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



10. We have then the Cow-dung-Fly ; the dubbing light 

 brown and yellow mixed ; the wing the dark grey feather of 

 a mallard. And note, that besides these above mentioned, 

 all the same hackles and flies, the hackles only brighter and 

 the flies smaller, that are taken in April, will also be taken 

 this month, as all browns and duns. And now I come to my 

 Stone-Fly and Green Drake, which are the matadores for 

 trout and grayling, and in their season kill more fish in our 

 Derbyshire rivers than all the rest, past and to come, in the 

 whole year besides. 



But first I am to tell you that we have four several flies 

 which contend for the title of the May-Fly ; namely, 



The Green Drake, 



The Stone-Fly, 



The Black Fly, and 



The little yellow May-Fly. 



And all these have their champions and advocates to dispute 

 and plead their priority ; though I do not understand why 

 the two last named should, the first two having so manifestly 

 the advantage, both in their beauty and the wonderful exe- 

 cution they do in their season. 



11. Of these the Green Drake comes in about the twen- 

 tieth of this month, or betwixt that and the latter end, for 

 they are sometimes sooner and sometimes later, according 

 to the quality of the year ; but never well taken till towards 

 the end of this month and the beginning of June. The 

 Stone-Fly comes much sooner, so early as the middle of 

 April, but is never well taken till towards the middle of 

 May, and continues to kill much longer than the green 

 drake stays with us, so long as the end almost of June ; and 

 indeed, so long as there are any of them to be seen upon 



