American Trout-stream Insects: A Guide to Angling Flies and Other Aquatic Insects Alluring to Trout, Selected and Painted for Each Month of the Trout Season from Nearly One Hundred Living Specimens Native to the Rivers and Lakes of the Temperate Zone of North America, with Notes on and Reproductions of Artificial Imitation Flies Tied by the Author, and a Chapter on the Mode of Tying Artificial Flies, with Assisting Charts and Illustrations of a Complete Set of New Artificial Nature-lures Copied Exactly from Carefully Colored Life-pictures that Bass and Other Game Fishes Consume as Food |
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abundant afternoons anglers appear April aquatic insects artificial flies artificial imitation bass bass fishing beautiful belly BEST TROUT INSECTS bright brown drake brown trout captured cast caterpillar choptera cold days color copy crawfish creepers dark day warm days days Spinner Diptera days Stone-Fly Perlidae daytime deep Drake Ephemera dry fly dull duns early all day early to late egg-sack entire month entomology eyes fancy flies feather minnow feeding female fish food flight float fly-makers frog game fishes grasshopper green drake green-eye hackle half hitch helgramite hook July June LAKE TROUT large numbers larvæ late all day legs live bait LOUIS RHEAD mercerized cotton method middle mottled natural insect nature lures optera orange plentiful raffia rise river season sect seen selection shad-fly shoulders silver sinker species specimens SPINNER early stream stylets tail thick thorax tinsel tion troll tying silk water's surface wet days wings wisks
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Page 120 - After passing the tippet through the eye of the fly, hold the tippet end or tag between the thumb and forefinger of the left hand. With the right thumb and forefinger, slide the fly down the tippet.
Page 168 - ... pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together, with the hauling aboard as soon as possible of the struggling fish, amidst much splashing and floundering, seems to be their estimation of gameness in a fish. The foregoing remarks apply to fishing on lakes and quiet, weedy streams of the Northern states. In the clear and swifter waters of the upper Ohio, and its tributaries, the mascalonge lies in the deep pools during summer and fall, where it is taken by still-fishing. A large sucker, weighing...
Page 9 - ... rest, stand upright like those of a butterfly, and are generally about the length of the fly, and better than half the breadth ; a diminutive wing stands at the root of each large one ; and they have two or three hairs in the tail. They are indifferent runners on both land and water, and will suffer themselves to be taken up by the wings. They are not so hardy as the browns ; their shoulders and bodies are naked and exposed, but nature has furnished them with a temporary covering to protect them...
Page 118 - Fig. 22. the wax, and thus allow the silk to draw freely. Cut off the remnant of the silk, varnish the knot thoroughly, and if in this operation the eye is filled with varnish, do not rig. as. neglect to clear it.
Page 8 - At the breast of each shoulder there is a pair of legs, and they have two pairs of smooth oblong wings, which, when folded, circle...
Page xv - ... we do well to abide by many of their conclusions ; but there can be no question that in the years to come the differences between the insects of the two countries will be better understood and defined, and that a collection of the water insects interesting to fishermen of America, with directions for accurate imitations, arranged after the manner of Ronalds' 'Fly-fisher's Entomology,
Page 117 - Similarly work three more turns of the loop, passing it at each turn over the eye (fig. 19). Holding the hook and turns of silk firmly between the left thumb and forefinger, draw the end of the tying-silk down with the right hand until the knot is quite tight (fig 20).
Page 168 - Three feet above the sinker attach a single or double twisted leader (average weight of fish that are feeding should determine its character) and two other leaders placed above the first, from six to ten feet apart, the distance to be judged by the depth at which the lake trout are taking the bait. A gang of three hooks is...
Page 63 - ... specimens I have wanted for myself and friends I have obtained without difficulty. Its song is to be heard here from the last week in April to the first week in July. I have found a good many of its nests near Brecon, and, knowing the likeness of its eggs to those of the Blackcap, have always used great care in identifying the species. The eggs I have found here have been much of one type, lighter in colour than those of the Blackcap, and not, as a rule, likely...
Page 39 - April (April 28), and reaches its maximum in the last week in May and the first week in June, disappearing at the end of the latter month (June 30).