DESCRIPTION TROUT-FLY PATTERNS 



ing from the 8th, and there were slight warm 

 showers, and the rise began about noon, the 

 insects flying high above the water. They are 

 exceedingly strong and active in flight, making 

 them difficult to capture with the fly-net. 

 They fly twenty feet high when over the land. 

 At rare intervals when they do take a rest, to 

 alight on leaves and twigs at the water's edge, 

 the movement is rapid when efforts are made to 

 capture them. Yet in flight they appear to move 

 slowly and quietly along. They are excellent 

 floaters and can walk along the surface with 

 ease. 



'.While most flies hide themselves behind 

 large stones and under leaves for protection 

 from the wind and rain on cold days, a remark- 

 able feature of the Shad-fly is to gather in a 

 great swarm on a rock by the riverside, some- 

 thing like a swarm of bees. If you brush them 

 off in large clusters to the water's surface they 

 spread out, floating down with the current, to 

 attract a surprising number of trout and chub 

 that rise up to make the water bubble in all 

 directions in gorging on the unexpected feast. 



"I can with confidence predict that when the 

 artificial fly is tied exactly after my drawings of 

 both male and female, that fly-fishers both wet 

 and dry will find it to be superior to any other 

 fly, even including the large Green and Gray 

 Drakes, for the latter half of May and most of 

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