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FLIES. 



I see no reason to alter the list given in the first edition, indeed, 

 subsequent experience has tended to confirm my opinion expressed 

 therein. 



Many old anglers say it is of no use in the May-fly season to try 

 any other fly. I generally use a May-fly as stretcher, and a small 

 Soldier-palmer as drop, and out of seventeen-and-a-half brace of 

 trout caught last Whitsuntide in two half-days, one-third of them 

 were caught on the Palmer. Others say it is useless to try a 

 May-fly, except when the natural fly is out ; but this is also 

 subject to modification. 



There have been two or three well-authenticated cases reported 

 in the sporting journals lately, of fish having been killed some 

 weeks before and after the season on Ephemera vulgata. Indeed, 

 there has been seen in Ireland this autumn a second very 

 strong rise of May-fly. 



In the first edition I speak of the Grey-drake thus : " This is 

 said to be a metamorphosis of the green drake, or female, changing 

 to a male." The passage should have read thus : " This is said 

 by some writers to be," &c. 



I had not the slightest intention of giving that as a fact, or as 

 my own opinion, knowing otherwise. 



Flies tied on eyed hooks with cocked or upright wings, in 

 imitation of the natural fly when floating down a stream, are 

 coming into use more and more, and apparently will supersede 

 those tied on gut, and with flat wings. 



WHEN TO GO FISHING. 



A century ago it was not possible to get forecasts of the weather 

 from the daily papers, and the death of Admiral Fitzroy in middle 

 life, and in the midst of his scientific discoveries, was a great blow 

 to the advancement of this branch of science. But with greater 

 facilities for conveying intelligence round the whole globe, it could 

 not but happen that more accurate information of air currents 



