118 ANGLING. 



silver-horns, with moths for the evening, are the fishj 

 favourites. 



During August, the palmer-hackles and moths, the 

 August dun, house and blow-flies, are good for a change. 



In September, the cinnamon-fly, pale-blue, whirling-blue 

 dun, and the palmers, are sufficient with the moths. 



For grayling, in streams where they abound, at the heads 

 and tails of streams they love to frequent, particularly if it 

 has a gravelly bottom, similar flies will be found taking, 

 in every sense of the term, if the hook is armed with a 

 gentle or grasshopper. 



The accompanying plate gives illustrations of sixteen 

 useful flies. Fig. 1 is a useful beetle, with a shorter hackle ; 

 it is the coch-y-bondhu of Irish fishermen. Figs. 2 and 3 

 are useful palmers, which, if dressed on larger hooks, form 

 excellent chub-flies. Fig. 4 is the golden palmer. Fig. 

 5 is the house-fly ,i and if dressed with a brilliant harl, 

 becomes the blue-bottle. Fig. 6 is the fern-fly. Fig. 7 

 is the yellow sally. Fig. 8 is the oak-fly. Fig. 9 fairly 

 represents the form of moths. Fig. 10 is the governor, 

 and the general form is that of the ant-flies. Fig. 11 

 is the stone-fly. Fig. 12 is the March-brown; fig. 13 

 the blue dim ; fig. 14 the red spinner; fig. 15, whirling- 

 -dun ; fig. 1C the May-fly. 



There are several maxims which the young fisherman 

 would do well to remember. Tread lightly, and keep your- 

 self well out of sight. Always fish with as fine a tackle 

 as you can use, and think no time wasted in care and pre- 

 paration. 



The best weather for fishing is probably when a warm 

 south-west wind dapples the surface of the water ; but the 

 direction of the wind, with reference to the point of the 



