CHAPTER VIII. 



THE GREEN AND GREY DRAKE. 

 PLATE II. cxciv. 



HESE are the most beautiful of our English 

 insects, and are taken with avidity tfy trout, 

 chub, and grayling. They are found more 

 or less on all streams, but chiefly where 

 willows and grassy banks fringe the streams. 

 However lightly they may be esteemed, by Mr. Stewart 

 or Mr. Stoddart, for Scotch waters, they are especial 

 favourites with Anglers residing near many Yorkshire 

 and Durham streams, and appear about the twentieth of 

 May. Their bodies are long and slender, and taper to- 

 wards the tail, from the end of which spring the forked 

 whisks, which, turning up towards their backs, give the 

 name of Drakes to these flies. 



The body of this fly is made of hog's down or light 

 bear's hair, intermixed with yellow mohair, or of barber's 

 yellow silk, only warped with pale floss silk, with a 

 peacock's herl for the head. A bittern's hackle is said to 

 be the best representation of the legs and dark stripes 

 of the body, and for the whisks the long hairs of a sable 

 or fitchet. Other methods of dressing this and the Grey- 

 drake are given hereafter in the list of flies. 



As no natural feather approaches the resemblance of 



