Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



fishing being to imitate nature as closely 

 as possible, the angler is naturally in- 

 clined to limit his choice of artificial 

 flies to the imitation of those kinds 

 of insects which are seen on the water 

 in numbers. Such insects on dry-fly 

 waters can almost be reckoned upon 

 the fingers of both hands, and this list 

 will, I think, be found to exclude no 

 fly of importance to the angler: Olive 

 and blue duns and the red spinner; 

 iron-blue dun and sherry spinner; 

 March brown and the great red spin- 

 ner; yellow dun, red quill, May-fly, 

 and spent gnat; alder, sedge, and the 

 grannom. The list, for ordinary pur- 

 poses, might be reduced to include only 

 these flies: The olive dun and blue 

 duns and their imago, the red spinner, 

 the iron-blue dun, the March brown, 

 the yellow dun, red quill, May-fly and 

 its imago, the spent gnat, alder, sedge." 



[1841 



