90 | LIST OF FLIES. 
their winged tribes. Grayling and smelt, fat and well 
favored for the remainder of the season, furnish the sport 
of the small flyfisher. Farewell, Trout! my old and charm- 
ing acquaintance, fare thee well in peace and security until 
we meet in other days. Thou art the best trump in the 
streams ; thy beauty, thy cunning, and thy courage, I ever 
admired. How have I loved to tackle thee in the days of 
thy freedom and prosperity. I have delighted to deceive 
thee in thy prime and ruthless moments ; but I ever detested 
the snare and the lyster; nor is the grey fly* in my list. 
Neither would IJ disturb thee in thy connubial joys, or per- 
secute thee on those days when thy spirit is subdued by 
adversity ; no! I would then succour and protect thee. I 
now beseech all men to spare the trout, take or touch him 
not until the returning sun rouses him again to action. 
Drained are the riches of his delicate flesh, and dimmed 
and dusk his late lovely sides; but a “change has come 
o'er the spirit of his dream ;” a honey drop creeps in his 
blood and fevers in his brain—one feeling influence the 
females ; and an upward movement commences—the males 
follow—when every matured trout in the broad trunk of 
our river and all its branches, to the twig rills of the hills, 
are in a state of emigration, higher up the waters. 
OCTOBER FIRST. 
Orange brown.—Out in small numbers. 
Needle brown.—Numerous, hatching and breeding. 
Checkwing.—Not many. 
Dark drake, iron blue drake-—Hatching. 
Lighi drake.—Hatching. Length, better than a quarter. 
Sea swallow and orange, or yellow. 
* Poachers’ term for the Net. 
