STREAMCRAFT 



SETH GREEN: 



Wings, light brown mottled (turkey) ; 



Body, green ribbed with gold tinsel; 



Legs, brown hackle; 



Tail, gray mottled (wood-duck) or none. 

 SAND-FLY: 



Wings, light yellow-brown; 



Body, orange; Legs, light ginger hackle.. 

 SHAD-FLY (diversified): 



Wings, brown mottled (turkey) ; 



Body, peacock herl with brown tip or two bands of green 

 herl with gold band between; 



Legs, red or brown with black root. 

 Female represented with 



Body, orange ribbed with brown silk, and green ball at 

 tail to represent egg-sac; Legs, ginger hackle. 



Louis Rhead's studies of this natural fly, and 

 his report thereon in his American Trout-Stream 

 Insects, are highly interesting. Says he: "The 

 Shad-fly is the most abundant trout insect-food 

 that appears on our Eastern and some Middle 

 and Far Western streams. Trout are always 

 ravenous for it, yet a true imitation of this 

 handsome fly has hitherto never been made. 

 Old residents of Roscoe, N. Y., say this typical 

 aquatic insect has been known as the Shad-fly 

 for seventy years at least, and it is so named 

 because its flight occurs just at the time when 

 shad arrive at the headwaters of the Delaware 

 river to spawn; while so doing they feed upon 

 this fly, thereby attaining a fat and sleek ap- 

 pearance after spawning time is over. 

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