76 FISHING GOSSIP. 
The natural fly is used for dibbing or daping, as 
I have already described in my observations on the 
May-fly. And it should be observed that among 
Scottish fishermen the stone-fly is almost invariably 
termed the May-fly. Stewart, in his well-named 
work, The Practical Angler, falls into a curious error, 
contending that the cadis-worm is not the larva of 
the stone-fly, as he has observed the cadis in rivers 
as late as the month of August, long after the last 
stone-fly has disappeared. And so he might, for be-. 
sides the stone-fly, the Phryganide afford many other 
lures for the use of the fisherman ; the grannam or 
green-tail, the cinnamon-fly, the alder-fly, the oak-tfly, 
the large fetid light brown, the silver horn, and 
several others, all belong to this interesting class of 
insects. 
‘ The creeper is a favourite bait in the north of 
England and Scotland. The author of a work called 
The North Country Angler endeavours to make us 
believe that he first discovered the insect, though it 
was correctly described by Cotton, under the local 
name of a jack, in the Complete Angler. It is by no 
means a fascinating creature ; Stewart says that it is 
“the most venomous-looking insect that the angler 
in pursuit of his vocation has to encounter.” It runs 
fast, moving with alternate inflexions of the body, 
that give it almost a kind of serpentine character, 
and when taken up for the first time into tender 
