Artificial Flies for taking Trout, fyc. 201 



CLASS 10. The Dotterels. As the last. Limerick hook, 

 No. 0, 1, 2, or 3. 



CLASS 11. The Fieldfares. As the last. Limerick hook, 

 No. 0, 1, 2, or 3. 



CLASS 12. The Tom-tits. Chiefly the tail-feathers, and 

 brown, orange, copper-coloured, slate, and yellow silks. 

 Limerick hook, No. 0. 



CLASS 13. The Creepers. As for the Sandpipers. 



CLASS 14. The Fern- Owls, or Night- Jars. As the last. 



CLASS 15. The Golden Plovers. As for the Woodcocks. 



For the very small flies, such as are used by many of the 

 Fly-fishers on the Wear, the feathers from any small birds, 

 such as sparrows, torn-tits, &c. and the various shades of 

 silks, with a little tinsel, or a very small quantity of worsted, 

 the colour of the silk you warp with, for the head, and 

 dressed on No. hooks, sometimes kill well in very small 

 and clear waters. 



For waters that run very clear and small in summer, I 

 would never dress flies with any dubbing ; they are at such 

 times worthless. Silk, in almost all cases, makes the neatest 

 body for general use. 



If you wish, however, to have a fly as near as may be to 

 the substance and appearance of a natural fly, make the 

 bodies of your artificials with the very finest transparent 

 strip of India-rubber over the coloured silk, similar to the 

 colour of the natural fly, beginning under the shoulder and 

 making it, for all the drake-shaped flies (as those on Plate 

 in.), nicely tapering to the tail, and add forks. If thus 

 warped on to the body of a winged-fly, neatly done, it is 

 the most perfect resemblance of the natural fly that can 

 be built : except perhaps the outer portion of the quill- 

 feather of a starling's wing, shaved thin from the outside 

 stem, which will come off like a piece of hair. 



Of the hackled-flies, some should be dressed full in feather 

 andbody, while for fine waters you can hardly have the feather 

 too scant, and the body too thin, provided it is long enough. 



197. THE MAY-FLY, OR STONE-FLY. 



Tie securely a long-shanked green-drake hook on to a 



