VII 



Description of Trout-Fly Patterns 



COMPLETE tabulation of 

 what might be called the "lead- 

 ing" trout and bass flies of 

 this country and of Europe 

 and ignoring the salmon flies 

 would comprise from four to 

 five hundred varieties. We will 

 conclude this ^treatise with a 

 list of about seventy-five of 

 the artificial trout-flies that 

 widely used and most gen- 

 in American waters, and 



today are most 

 erally successful 

 with a description of their accepted patterns. 

 It is a good plan to obtain at the beginning 

 high-grade samples to serve as models for the 

 reproduction of the exact colorations; later 

 you will be getting your color indications 

 mainly from the real insects. Attend now to 

 what the English poet John Gay so charmingly 

 says about this: 



Mark well the various seasons of the year, 

 How the succeeding insect race appear, 

 In their revolving moon one color reigns, 

 Which in the next the fickle trout disdains; 



