296 SALMON AND TROUT. 
Herefordshire from the beginning of June. The natural insect 
is a small moth, glossy black, with very long black-and-white 
horns, easily imitated with a strand of a teal feather. It is 
very conspicuous on rank waterside herbage, and I rarely fail 
to use the imitation along sedgy reaches. Finally, there is the 
Derbyshire ‘Bumble.’ Of this queer fly I know nothing, save 
that I have killed with it, and have seen it successful in the 
hands of local anglers about Bakewell, Rowsley, &c. I have 
seen it tied with all manner of colours, but always with a fat 
body of smooth floss silk, ribbed with some bright short- 
stranded hackle. Its special oddity lies in its plumpness, 
SILVER HORNS 
BLUE UPRIGHT 
Seen in contrast with the ordinary Derbyshire flies—slender 
and almost midge-like things—it looks like Major Monsoon 
among a squad of light horse. What is it taken for? Not the 
veritable bumble, surely, which a trout rarely meddles with, 
and if ina whimsical mood he sucks it in, eschews without 
chewing. The ‘great representative principle’ seems quite at 
fault. Can it be meant for one of the local Coleoptera? Beetle— 
beadle—Bumble! A plausible derivation. 
Having now given some general hints as to the best mode 
of fishing a stream, with some practical suggestions as to the 
choice of flies, I find that there is.a good deal yet to be done 
ere the particular fish whom I have in my mind’s eye takes up 
his proper quarters in the basket. My fly or flies are such as 
