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or dun drake} and great red spinner; and any of these 
are well-proved and successful flies in England; but in 
this country the fact is, that even in the warmest regions 
in which the American brook-trout is found, the natural 
fly of any kind is scarcely on the water at all at this 
season; and that one is just as likely as the other. 
April brings the golden dun midge, the sand fly, the 
stone fly, the grannom, or green tail, the yellow dun, the 
iron-blue dun, the jenny-spinner, and the hawthorn fly. 
The third, fourth, and fifth of which will be found very 
tempting during the whole period of spring fishing; as 
will also, or perhaps I should say, more so, the yellow 
May dun, the black gnat, the downhill fly, the Turkey 
brown, little dark spinner, yellow Sally, fern fly, or 
soldier, alder fly, and green and gray drake, which may 
be regarded as particularly, according to the doctrin- 
aires, the flies of the month. I confess that I am not 
myself a believer in the use of particular flies, for par- 
ticular months or seasons, except as regards particular 
waters; and, in fact, such an application is utterly 
impossible in a country of the extent of the trout-fishing 
region of North America ; where the months and the 
very seasons differ by twenties and forties of degrees. 
The trout-fishing region of North America may be said, 
generally, to extend from, Nova Scotia and Lower 
Canada, eastward to the feeders of Lake Superior on the 
west, and from the extreme northern seas to the Atlantic 
coasts, eastward of the Hudson. Westward of that 
