SOME ENGLISH TEOUT STEEAMS 



in the beginning of May : the body made of red wool, wrapt about with 

 black silk ; and the feathers are the wings of the drake ; with the 

 feathers of a red capon also, which hangs dangling on his sides next to the 

 tail. The fifth is the yellow or greenish fly, in May Ukewise : the body 

 made of yeUow wool ; and the wings made of the red cock's hackle or tail. 

 The sixth is the black-fly, in May also : the body made of black wool, 

 and lapt about with the herle of a peacock's tail ; the wings are made of 

 the wings of a brown capon, with his blue feathers in his head. The 

 seventh is the sad yellow-fly, in June : the body is made of black wool, 

 with a yellow Hst of either side ; and the wings taken off the wings of a 

 buzzard, bound with black braked hemp. The eighth is the moorish-fly, 

 made, with the body, of duskish wool ; and the wings made of the blackish 

 mail of the drake. The ninth is the tawny-fly, good imtil the middle of 

 June : the body made of tawny wool ; the wings made contrary one 

 against the other, made of the whitish mail of the wild drake. The tenth 

 is the wasp-fly, in July : the body made of black wool, lapt about with 

 yellow sUk ; the wings made of the feathers of the drake, or of the buzzard. 

 The eleventh is the sheU-fly, good in mid-July : the body made of 

 greenish wool, lapt about with the herle of a peacock's tail ; and the 

 wings made of the wings of the buzzard. The twelfth is the dark drake- 

 fly, good in August : the body made with black wool, lapt about with 

 black silk ; his wings are made with the mail of the black drake, with a 

 black head. Thus have you a jury of flies, likely to betray and condemn 

 all the Trouts in the river.' 



Then Walton gives his friend the best instructions to be had : 

 ' First, let your rod be light, and very gentle.' 



The streams of England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland abound 

 in trout of many kinds ; in fact, nearly all kinds of trout have 

 been introduced with more or less success. An extraordinary 

 number of names are applied to them, as in other countries. 

 ' John Bickerdyke ' catalogues them for the angler as (1), the 

 chalk stream trout ; (2), the moorland or mountain trout, taken 

 ■with a wet or dry fly ; (3), the lake trout, found also in the Thames ; 

 (4), the salmon trout. The chalk stream trout is the common 

 Brown trout of Germany, Salmo fario, famous in the annals of 

 the Test, Itchen, Wiley and Lambourn. 



Salmo fario is also the mountain trout of England, and he is 

 found in the wild streams of the north of Scotland, the mountains 



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