344 SALMON AND TROUT. 
Legs and Whisks: Pale buff, or, for a change, honey dun. 
FTook, 00 or ooo. 
With this list of flies a fisherman may consider himself well 
equipped for the first two months of the season, and there are 
many days in every month of the summer and autumn when 
these same flies tied smaller would be found sufficient to insure 
the best of sport. 
I do not believe in dividing artificial flies according to 
months, and a good comprehensive assortment of spring pat- 
terns will, with slight modifications, always be of general use 
at all times and in all weathers. Still, there are some very 
favourite flies which do not appear before May, and as these 
sometimes entirely monopolise the attention of every feeding 
fish, they must be added to the list. I leave out the green and 
grey drake, as they are not found on every water, and almost 
every angler has his own special pattern ; but, in my opinion, 
May flies are frequently tied too large, and I believe, whatever 
pattern be adopted, the best sport will be obtained by small flies. 
IX. THE BLACK GNAT. 
(Vide engraving). 
The natural fly has a long, thin, shiny black body, not a bit 
like the fluffy little lump usually seen in the imitation. Then 
XVII. JENNY SPINNER. IX. BLACK GNAT. XVIII. THE INTERMEDIATE. 
the wings are long and lie folded gute flat (not sloped like 
those of a sedge or alder), and projecting over the tail end of 
the body, showing a shiny, metallic, gauzy film, in strong con- 
