JUNE 159 



upon some lough in the fortnight of the 

 Green Drake. There the lure is on a 

 cast dangling from a line of floss-silk, a 

 fluffy line, easily borne out upon the 

 breeze ; working with the wind, the 

 angler can make the fly just touch the 

 water and then go, touch and go, touch 

 and go, as if it were laying eggs. That, 

 at times, is a movement of the Mayfly 

 which the trout cannot resist. Our own 

 particular angler managed to imitate it 

 merely because the screen of reeds 

 enabled him, unseen, to dap his Mayfly 

 perpendicularly. At other places he 

 would have dapped in that way in vain. 



A very entertaining fact is that all 

 the trout in a stretch of water want 

 Mayflies which are in a particular stage 

 of their brief life in the air. When they 

 are to be caught by dapping it is the 

 perfect Mayfly that they want. At 

 other times they seek the insect, just 

 arrived or just arriving on the surface, 

 with its wings still incompletely unfolded. 

 Then the lure which will succeed is one 



