CHAPTEE IV. 



FLY-FISHING. 



The Characteristics of a True Sportsman Proper Flies for each Season 

 Different Flies for Different Times of Day Dark Flies for Cold 

 Weather, and vice versa Eule for Choosing Flies for the Day- 

 Natural Flies vary in their Numbers and Times of Appearance in 

 Different Seasons Diary of Flies on the Breamish Table of 

 Favourite Breamish Flies Best Weather for Fly-Fishing 

 Model Day for Fly- Fishing Small Flies. 



AS this department of the angler's art is universally 

 considered the method, par excellence, of capturing 

 such members of the finny tribe as will rise to the fly, 

 especially by sportsmen whom fortune has favoured with 

 access to those clear and crystal streams which are more 

 peculiarly adapted to this pursuit, it will necessarily 

 claim the first consideration at our hands. And I need 

 scarcely remark, that to become an adept in this parti- 

 cular branch, requires a very considerable amount, not 

 only of manual skill and dexterity, but of scientific 

 knowledge of the habits and instincts of the fish the 

 angler is in pursuit of, and of the different insects whose 

 imitation lures them to destruction. Judgment also is 

 required in their selection and use ; and this is only to 

 be gained by practical experience, and a close and keen 



