92 BAIT AND FLY FISHING. 



the naked eye, in its chrysalis or water form, 

 in rain-water cisterns, like a small root of 

 shrub, or the seed of the herb aven. Its 

 head is large, being extended by the pluff, 

 which the insect requires in its water form 

 for exchanging the air around its head (the 

 young of some amphibious insects require 

 air in their water form). After it has got a 

 supply of air, it descends by a zigzag motion, 

 something like a figure 7, coming to the 

 surface when it wants more air. But I have 

 digressed, and forgot I was an old fisher. 



Before closing my little treatise, I must 

 give the young angler some hints on making 

 trout flies. Begin in spring with a No. 7 

 hook round bend, and reduce the size as 

 the season advances; but after a rise of 

 water by rain put on a larger fly, because 

 these rise until the water decreases again. 

 In making your fly, take the hook in your 

 left hand, between your finger and thumb, 

 the bend being to the right ; resin a thread 

 of orange silk, making the end of it small 

 with your teeth, and flatten the end of the 

 gut in the same way. Place the small end 

 of the thread about half an inch down the 



