CHAPTER VI 



ARTIFICIAL FLIES 



Contrast of Systems Copying Nature and Copying Nothing List of Flies 



for each Month. 



BEFORE entering upon the description of the neces- 

 sary flies for the angler's use, I shall give a reference 

 to the numbers of the flies in Plate VIII ; as in my 

 first edition some difficulty was experienced by anglers 

 and tackle makers in the way of identifying each fly. 



1. Is the Green Drake or May Fly (p. 161). 



2. The Grey Drake or transformation of the Green Drake 

 (p. 166). 



3. The March Brown or Cob Fly of Wales (p. 146). 



4. The Blue Dun, known by a great variety of names, given in 

 its description (p. 143). 



5. The Red Spinner, the transformation of the Blue Dun 

 (p. 144). 



6. The Yellow Dun (p. 151). 



7. The Iron Blue Dun (p. 152). 



8. The Evening Dun (p. 160). 



9. The Little Blue Dun, Sky Blue, etc. (p. 160). 



10. The August Dun (p. 172). 



11. The Stone Fly (p. 158). 



12. The February Red, Red Fly (p. 143). 



13. The Willow Fly (p. 174). 



14. The Sand Fly (p. 157). 



15. The Alder or Orl Fly (p. 160). 



16. The Cinnamon (p. 173). 



17. The Gravel Bed, Spider Fly, etc. (p. 156). 



18. The Hawthorn Fly (p. 156). 



19. The Silver Horns (p. 172). 



20. The Coch y bondu, etc. (p. 167). 



21. The Fern Fly, Soldier Fly, etc. (p. 167). 



22. The Wren Tail, Brown Bent, etc. (p. 170). 



In giving a list of artificial flies I shall as much as possible 

 eschew all flies which I do not know from experience to be. 



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