78 BAIT AND FLY FISHING. 



landrail, and its body and legs of a light 

 rolling feather from the neck of a red cock. 

 A lighter fly may be made by using the 

 wing feather of a hen pheasant for its 

 wings, and the yellow fur of the seal for 

 its body and legs. Another may be made 

 by taking a brownish feather from a drake's 

 breast for wings, and rabbit's fur for body 

 and legs, tied on with orange silk. 



No. 5 appears in June, and is commonly 

 known as the salmon fly. It is about 

 seven-eighths of an inch long, and is the 

 largest fly that rises from quick running 

 streams. It is a flat crawling insect when 

 it leaves the spawn, similar to No. 1 ; and 

 when about to change from this form to its 

 original, it comes out upon a gravel bank 

 above a ford. It pairs after passing into 

 its original form. The male is smaller than 

 the female; he has small prongs, and his 

 wings are covered by a short case. The 

 female is without prongs, but is furnished 

 with small hairs at the end of the abdomen, 

 that serve to protect the ova (which is 

 fixed upon the upper end like small red 

 strawberrys) until it is matured. Her wings 



