I04 THE DRY-FLY MAN'S HANDBOOK 



red tag, orange bumble, furnace, wickham, pink wick- 

 ham, or green nondescript. 



The chapter in " Modern Development of the Dry- 

 Fly " on this subject should be 

 Evening fishing. studied in connection with the 



remarks 1 propose making. 

 In fact it would be well for the reader to peruse this 

 and the succeeding chapter on " Sedges," before con- 

 sidering the points now raised. The blue-winged 

 olive {Ephemerella ignita) may be expected to show 

 up about the middle of July, and continue during the 

 remainder of the trout season. It is a fly which 

 usually commences to hatch out in the evening and 

 often continues until it is too dark to see. It is quite 

 possible that the hatch goes on throughout the hours 

 of darkness. The new patterns imitating it, No. 22 

 the male and No. 23 the female, are a great im- 

 provement on any of the old standards. If blue- 

 winged olives are to be seen, and they are very 

 prominent and visible on the water, these patterns 

 should as a rule be tried first and persevered 

 with over several rising fish before being discarded. 

 When the trout are rising quietly and cannot be 

 tempted by the blue-winged olive the imago stage 

 of the same insect, i.e. the sherry spinner, is often 

 successful. Nos. 24 and 25 are the male and female 

 sherry spinners respectively. If the fish will have 

 none of these the female olive (red) spinner No. 13, 

 female iron-blue spinner No. 21, or female pale watery 

 spinner No. 17 should be tried. 



