APRIL. 25 
APRIL. 
So. wins the ascendency, and blunts the sharn teeth of 
rebellious winds —withered winter vanishes in flowery green 
and woodland music—the welcome swallow halts on her 
native chimney, while thick around descend the vital sparks. 
Stick to the streams fisherman, while spring invigorates the 
game. Trout squats by sharp streams and in ambush 
checks the rapids, hungry and bold he dashes unerring at 
the passing fly. Grayling woo in the gravelly draws— 
disturb or take them not. The royal samlet deserts the 
narrow limits of his native home, and joins in shoals to 
seek dominion in encircling seas. The waters pour their 
winged progeny into air. Among the rest, fishermen! 
take heed! the imperial Empress comes. 
19TH.—MorTtrLeD Brown.—Full length, about half an 
inch ; length, better than a quarter; wings, near three- 
eighths, which when folded, appear of a red brown ground 
veined and spotted, or mottled with darker, like the 
feathers in a partridge’s tail; shoulders and body darkish 
brown ; legs, a tortoise shell mixture, dark at the joints ; 
is hatching this month and continues through the next. 
Body, shoulders, and head, orange silk; wings and legs 
a partridge’s tail feather, red, spotted with darker. 
20TH.—Hovuse Fiy."—Full length near three-eighths ; 
length, a quarter; wings, a quarter, which are clear and 
transparent, of a brown tinge; eyes large and brown, set 
in a rim of silver ; shoulders, a mixture of dark stone and 
(13) Jackson does not give the imitation of this fly until October, and Mr. 
Francis mentions tLe fact that the fish take them more readily in the autumn, as 
they then become weak and blind, and fall upon the water ; both this and the follow- 
ing fly are, however, most effective when used in the natural state, large dishes of 
fish being sometimes caught in bright summer weather by dibbing with it on the 
finest drawn gut behind bushes, ete., on the deeps of trout rivers; some anglers are 
great adepts at this style of fishing, but I must confess that it is a branch of the art 
for which. care little, and rarely adopt, unless compelled by force of circumstances. 
