Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



terns of wet flies and of <Jry-flies, for 

 as a rule the latter usually resemble 

 the favorite duns in size, shape, and 

 action, while the wet flies are admitted, 

 even by devotees of the silnken fly, to 

 resemble no living thing. 



A vast majority of the dry-flies used 

 by anglers are tied in imitation of small 

 ephemeral insects called duns. These 

 ephemeridse exist in large numbers and 

 there are many varieties, though the 

 described species may be not more than 

 two hundred. A few of them are large, 

 such as the May-fly, March brown, 

 and August dun, but most of them are 

 very small. Changes in color take 

 place in this species of ephemeridae as 

 they advance from spring to summer, 

 and as they retrograde again toward 

 autumn. In the summer months their 

 hues are warmer and lighter. Species 

 after species arrives, one after the other 



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