is LIST OF FLIES. 
eighths ; wings, three-eighths ; whisks, a quarter to half an 
inch, with two small short feelers ; top of head, shoulders, 
and down the back a bluish ashy hue, of lighter or darker 
shade, upon an orange bottom ; rather lighter along the 
sides ; along the breast and belly, and on the edges of each 
joint ; thighs, a light grizzly hair-like transparency, with a 
gleam of amber, and darkening to the feet. Wings, faintly 
veined, longitudinally, and of a dim transparency of a fine 
smoky blue tinge. When the fly is held to the light, its 
tinges and reflections are of a light grizzly blue cast. 
Slips for wings are generally selected from those of the 
starling ; body, orange silk, tinged and dyed with fox-cub 
down, and two or three fibres of amber mohair. 
The blue drake hatches the first of the drake tribes— 
commencing last month, if the weather be open ; and it is 
very probable she continues through the season ; she hatches 
on fine days, in good numbers, from nine or ten in the 
morning to three or four in the afternoon, and continues a 
favorite leader through the spring. Like all the diakes, 
she is most successful when fished in her natal garb, at the 
time she is hatching ; she is a hardy fly, and will hatch in 
cold weather, if it be tolerably dry and open, when there 
is often good sport, for the flies are benumbed with the cold, 
and cannot clear the water, which is their natural propen- 
sity to do as soon as they are hatched, and the fishes avail 
themselves of it. The blue drake is darkest when first 
hatched, and soon casts her skin, when she is altogether of 
a lighter shade and smarter fly—she also casts it and 
becomes the orange drake. 
9TH.—-ORANGE DRAKE.s—Dimensions about the same as 
(6) This fly is the imago of the ‘‘ Blue Dun,” and generally known to the craft 
as the ‘Red Spinner,” but being of the same shape as its pseudo-imago, the author 
classes it among the drakes. After a slight shower, the fish frequently rise with 
great eagerness at this fly, the evening being the best time to employ the imitation. 
Hardly any of the writers on fly fishing agree with respect to the wings, which are 
so glassy and transparent as to render their successful imitation a matter of con- 
