442 TROUT FLIES 



follows : May-fly (Green Drake) ; Gray Drake (or 

 Spent-Gnat) ; March Brown (on some rivers only — 

 generally the female) ; Blue-Dun, Hare's Ear (an 

 excellent fly) ; Little Blue Dun (good on every river, 

 and indispensable) ; Yellow Dun ; Evening Dun ; 

 Olive Dun (the best of all flies) ; Red Spinner (large) ; 

 Red Spinner (small) ; Claret Spinner ; Brown Spinner 

 (the spinners are indispensable) ; August Dun (very 

 similar to a March Brown, and very good) ; Stone-fly 

 (local). This last-named fly (often miscalled the 

 May-fly) is found on some rivers (those principally in 

 the north), and they attain to considerable size on the 

 Beauly, and there is also on that river a very large 

 spider, which is to be found amongst the stones on the 

 banks of the celebrated Groam Pool (I have imitated 

 these spiders with the following dressing, viz., body of 

 fur from a cat's tail, and wing of gray turkey. When 

 wet, these imitations closely resemble the natural insect, 

 and are very killing). The February Red ; the 

 Willow-fly (invaluable in some streams) ; the Sand-fly ; 

 the Alder-fly (invaluable in some streams) ; the Gravel- 

 fly ; the Hawthorn-fly (invaluable in some streams) ; 

 the Cinnamon-fly ; the Fern-fly ; the Soldier-fly ; the 

 Wren Tail-fly ; the Partridge Wing fly ; the Silver 

 Horns and Brown Silver Horns ; the Landrail ; the 

 Coch-y-Bonddhu (excellent everywhere) ; the Iron- 

 blue (absolutely necessary when that fly is on the 

 water, and taken by the fish to the exclusion of all 

 other flies) ; Sedge-fly (for evening), Small Sedge-fly 

 (both good nearly everywhere) ; Wickham's Fancy (a 

 standard pattern) ; Red Quill Gnat (a standard pattern) ; 

 Red Tag (excellent at times, especially with fish which 

 feed under water rather than on the surface ; a fancy 



