ARTIFICIAL FLIES. 113 
colored aquatics of the day, and small hackles, with a mag- 
got at each, cast into the short runs and ripples of stony 
streams, are irresistible. Towards the end of autumn they 
verge into the deeps, where they remain until spring sum- 
mons them away, when they offer good sport all along 
their line of march to salt water. A shoal will straighten 
the flyfisher’s line at every cast, when the kicks and flings 
of these tiny sportlings may suggest the furious tugs and 
struggles in store for the angler, when he holds at bay the 
full-grown king of the fishes. 
The sizes and situations of the component parts of an 
artificial fly must be the same as those of the natural ones, 
or as near as materials will allow. Ifadrake fly be hatch- 
ing, and the fish watching and feeding upon it, in order to 
deceive them the wings, legs, head, shoulders, and body of 
the artificial drake must be the same in sizes, situation, and 
outline, to those.of the natural fly. The length of the fly 
gives the length of the shank of the hook required. Arti- 
ficial flies are winged with slips or cuts from the inner web 
of the large feathers. They are hackled by winding the 
stem of the feather tightly over the shoulders, keeping the 
fibres free. The flies in the list are divided into seven 
classes, being of seven different shapes. The same shape 
of the natural flies in each class must be given to their arti- 
ficial imitations. 
The Browns require the cylinder-like form of head, shoul- 
ders, and body, in their proportions, for they are the bulk 
and substance of all flies, from which the wings and legs 
are but shades and offshoots. Body, half length, of eight 
or nine rounds of suitable sized silk, which is the number 
of joints. Winged on the middle shoulder, and legged at 
the breast. Hackled on the second and third shoulder, the 
fibres of the feather to lie down flat at the stem, by the 
action of the water, and close over the back and sides in 
the wire-like form of the closed wings of the flies, 
