xii PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. intend the colouring of each particular impression. He therefore presumes to hope that he has succeeded in giving a useful collection of the leading flies for every month in the season, and that any one, who may be led by it to a choice of flies from the stock of the manufacturer, or to the construction of his own, will not have cause to repent having consulted the catalogue, chiefly composing the fourth Chapter. But since in his endeavours to improve the art of fly-making, careful observations were made relative to some of the habits of the Trout and Grayling, and of many insects upon which these fish prey; it is hoped that a few of these observations, intermixed with a little useful information, and some remarks on other points more or less connected with the principal subject, will not be thought inappropriate. These form the subjects of the three preceding Chapters. Chiswick, June, 1836. CONTENTS. OF THE TROUT. His Weight, Colour, Condition, Haunts, Of the GRAYLING. Size. Colour. Food, &c. Season. Localities. 1 The Rod. Line. Reel. End Line. Hooks. Dubbing- Preparation of the Rod and Line. Art of Throwing. 22 Buzz Flies. Rising short, &c. Sudden cessation of Rises, &c. Places to be whipped, &c. Throwing to a Trout just risen. Striking. Killing, Landing. Difference between Trout and Grayling fishing. Manner of presenting the Fly to a Grayling. Land- - 43 AN ILLUSTRATED LIST OF INSECTS, AND THEIR IMITATIONS, Introduction. Flies to be used in March. Flies for April. For May. For June. For July. For August. 55 IV. Red Fly. - Blue Dun. — Red Spinner V. Water Cricket. Great Dark Drone. - Cow Dung Fly VI. Peacock Fly.-March Brown.- Great Red Spinner 68 VII. Golden Dun Midge. Sand Fly. Stone Fly VIII. Gravel Bed. - Grannom. - Yellow Dun IX. Iron Blue Dun. - 76 80 Jenny Spinner - Hawthorn Fly 84 X. Little Yellow May Dun. — Black Gnat. — Oak Fly XI. Turkey Brown. Little Dark Spinner. - Yellow 88 92 - 96 - 100 104 XV. Pale Evening Dun. — July Dun.- Gold-Eyed Gauze-Wing XVI. Wren Tail. - Red Ant. Silver Horns XVII. August Dun. - Orange Fly. - Cinnamon Fly Blue Dun.-Willow Fly XIX. Red Palmer. - Brown Palmer. Black and Red |