DIARY OF FLIES ON BREAMISH. 83 



well taken (especially the two former), during the fore- 

 noon until eleven o'clock, when what I have named the 

 early orange and dun (a fly I had not observed previous 

 to this) appeared in numbers, and remained until two 

 o'clock in the afternoon, when it again retired. I observed 

 that the trout entirely forsook the March brown during 

 the time this fly remained abroad, but occasionally took 

 the dark dun all the time. 



April 5. The dun drake first appeared to-day, 

 coming on the water about one o'clock in the afternoon. 

 Both the dark dun and March brown were well taken 

 before the appearance of the drake ; but after that, only 

 the latter and the blue dun were in demand. 



April 8. The grannam first appeared on the morn- 

 ing of this day. 



June 20. I observed the green drake, the alder-fly, 

 yellow sally, and oak-fly, or " down-stander," all on the 

 water at the same time in the afternoon. There was no 

 fly-fishing during the month of May this season, 011 

 account of the severe drought. 



June 23. High west wind ; water very low ; killed 

 two dozen good trout in the forenoon ; brown and yellow 

 cranes and shorn fly well taken. 



As the above observations on the natural flies, made 

 in the course of three seasons, will form a pretty correct 

 index for fishing the Breamish from the 24th of March 

 to the 23d of June, I shall arrange them in a tabular 

 form, for the future guidance of those who may happen 

 to cast their lines in its lively streams. 



