Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



Jenny spinner, willow-fly, orange fish- 

 hawk, soldier palmer, white miller, 

 coachman, black gnat. I am firmly of 

 the opinion that a skilful angler will 

 have all the patterns of flies absolutely 

 needed on at least many of our Eastern 

 streams, if he uses this list. Of these, 

 in my experience, limited indeed com- 

 pared with that of various experts 

 quoted in this book, I have found the 

 whirUng dun and Wickham's fancy to 

 be all-around dependable lures. To- 

 ward evening, when daylight is disap- 

 pearing, a fly of lighter hue is recom- 

 mended, so that the angler may be 

 able to see the insect plainly both when 

 it is in the air and on the water. At 

 this time a valuable fly is the pale 

 evening dun, the willow-^fly, or the 

 Jenny spinner, while the favorite fly 

 of many at this time of the day — in 

 fact, of some anglers all through the 

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