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mind the Green Drake. Mr. Rhead says that 

 the Shad-fly is the best of our American May- 

 flies, and that the heavy annual flight of the 

 Green Drake as seen in Europe a<nd so frequently 

 mentioned in British angling literature is not 

 common to American waters. See further ref- 

 erence, in list of artificial flies, in last chapter.] 



June. The rise of large insects diminishes, 

 but there are several yellowish to orange mod- 

 ifications of the Green Drake of May and a 

 Chocolate Drake; also a few duns, some stone- 

 flies similar to Yellow Sally, and several large 

 spinners. 



July. All the more abundant insects are 

 small. Generally see but a few large stone- 

 flies, that appear only on dull, cloudy days or 

 late in the evening. The Orange Stone and 

 Brown Stone are larger than the earlier stones. 

 The Golden Drake, Pink-Tail Drake, White 

 Miller, Red-Headed Black Gnat and a few of 

 the smaller spinners are of chief interest. 



The Coachman, being the best all-round ar- 

 tificial and at the same time one easily seen on 

 and in the water, is used as a permanent tail- 

 fly by many American anglers. Another good 

 fly at tail or point, to which our British cousins 

 are partial, is a small black one, as the Black 

 Ant or Black Spider. The fact already has been 

 noted that the cast alights better with the 

 smaller fly for point, when using more than one 

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