CHAPTER IX. 



THE EVOLUTION OF THE TROUT FLY. 



I. — THE MATERIALS. 



And among the variety of your Fly-adven- 

 turers, remember the Hackle, or the Fly 

 substitute, form'd without Wings, and drest up 

 with the Feather of a Capon, Pheasant, Part- 

 ridg, Moccaw, Phlimingo, Paraketa, or the like, 

 and the Body nothing differing in shape from the 

 Fly, save only in ruffness, and indigency of 

 Wings. 



Northern Memoirs, 

 Eichard Franck. 1694. 



j|S I have said, fishermen when they 

 cast their eye on flies and began 

 to imitate them, proceeded on 

 what we can now recognise as 

 three distinct principles. Some 

 imitated fly life generally, and 

 produced an article which was a fair copy of an 

 insect but could not be connected with any 

 particular species or genus or group. Such 

 flies are called fancy flies. They have many 

 redoubtable advocates, drawn in modern times 



