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caliber, and dark or grayish flies of small size, on 

 hooks No. 4, on gut snells, with a fine leader. 

 The most useful flies are gray, red, and black 

 hackles, black gnat, blue dun, gray and brown 

 drake, and stone fly ; but far the best fly that I 

 have ever used is the Henshall of a small size. 

 It has a body of green peacock harl, hackle of 

 white hairs from a deer's tail, gray wings, and 

 tail of a fibre or two from the tail feather of a 

 peacock ; they will rise to this fly when no other 

 will tempt them to the surface. Toward sunset, 

 with the tackle named, on a breezy summer day, 

 the angler will be amply rewarded, for under 

 these conditions fly-fishing for the crappie is a 

 sport not to be despised. 



It has been alleged that the name " Campbell- 

 ite," by which the crappie is sometimes known 

 in Kentucky, was bestowed because the fish first 

 appeared in Kentucky streams about the same 

 time that the religious sect founded by Alexander 

 Campbell became established in that state. This 

 may have been the origin of the name, but I am 

 inclined to doubt it from the fact that the crappie 

 has probably always inhabited Kentucky streams, 

 inasmuch as it was first described by Rafinesque 

 in 1820 from Kentucky waters. He gave gold 



