TROUT FLIES IN APRIL 



trout take it very well indeed in the afternoons of 

 warm days. 



Locally, it is styled the redbug; and native an- 

 glers try the Montreal fancy fly as an imitation 

 of it. 



No. 9. Longhorn. This one I name longhorn; 

 it is locally misnamed the willow fly — so called, 

 I assimie, from its habit of resting on and walking 

 rapidly along the pussy-willow stems. It is truly of 

 the "brown" or stone-fly class and very abundant. 

 When just hatched its body is a bright shiny 

 orange, with four glossy gray wings overlapping 

 the body. I saw many specimens of various sizes 

 on the wiUows when the sun was out, but on cold 

 days they all creep under the stones to shelter from 

 the snow and wind. Later, as the weather gets 

 warmer, the flight is very thick all day long and at 

 evening till after dark. They are fat and must be 

 satisfying trout food both as creeper and fly. I 

 have made the artificial of deep orange on the body, 

 with flat wings, and it has proved one of the very 

 best early flies. A similar fly appears later, in 

 May, but in this one the stylets are absent, the head 

 is smaller and more pointed, and the eyes are bulg- 

 ing. 



No. 10. Cowdtmg. A well-known and most 

 excellent fly, when tied properly. It appears quite 

 early on bright warm days, and the artificial is best 



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