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also to our wet-flies ? We tie some 

 " fancy " pattern which proves to be a 

 wonderful killer, so fondly we imagine 

 that we have discovered a new " fly." Yet 

 watch it working in the current ! Its 

 curved wings lie flat, like a dark back. Its 

 glinting tinsel body is as a silver belly. 

 The shoulder hackle nowlooks like pectoral 

 fins, while the tag assumes the shape of a 

 tiny tail. We have, in fact, a little fish 

 below us, the fry of stickleback or minnow. 

 Again, our wet March Browns ! Do they 

 bear the slightest resemblance to the liv- 

 ing fly ? Are they not, when submerged, 

 very similar in appearance to fresh- water 

 shrimps ? In fact, if we clip our March 

 Brown's wings a little, and then pull out 

 the impostor's tail, he may do even better. 

 That wonderful little fly, Tupps' 

 Indispensable, is perhaps less of a 7'm'a 

 avis than we have imagined. To the 

 fisherman it suggests a delightful lure of 

 glinting iridescence, but bears no resem- 

 blance to any known species of ephemera ; 

 yet we may reasonably suppose that 

 under certain atmospheric conditions, and 

 from a point of view beneath the surface 



