TROUT HABITS; LURES AND USE 



habiting a muddy pool becomes a winged 

 creature that sports in the air. A crawling 

 caterpillar that ravenously devours some kind 

 of herbage with its horny jaws, eating vastly 

 more in proportion to its size than an ox, is 

 converted into a splendid butterfly, flitting from 

 flower to flower and feeding only on nectareous 

 juices." 



All the Ephemeridce (of ephemeral existence, 

 extremely short-lived), which include such water 



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March brown, dun, and May-fly or large green drake 

 (After Louis Rhead) 



flies those having aquatic larvae, which are of 

 most interest to the angler as the May-flies, 

 duns, and March browns, sail downstream with 

 folded and upright wings. Most of the various 

 land flies, that are blown onto the water from 

 overhanging trees and bushes, have flat wings. 

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