flesh, perpetually falls into the water, and comes to grief therein;
and last but not least, for the true caperers, or whole tribe of
Phryganidae, of which a sketch was given just now. As a copy of
them, the body should be of a pale red brown, all but sandy (but
never snuff-coloured, as shop-girls often tie it), and its best hour
is always in the evening. It kills well when fish are gorged with
their morning meal of green drakes; and after the green drake is off,
it is almost the only fly at which large trout care to look; a fact
not to be wondered at when one considers that nearly two hundred
species of English Phryganidae have been already described, and that
at least half of them are of the fawn-tint of the caperer. Under the
title of flame-brown, cinnamon, or red-hackle and rail's wing, a
similar fly kills well in Ireland, and in Scotland also; and is
sometimes the best sea-trout fly which can be laid on the water. Let
this suffice for the caperer.

2. Of the March-brown ephemera there is little to be said, save to
notice Ronalds' and Ephemera's excellent description, and Ephemera's
good hint of fishing with more than one March-brown at once, viz.,
with a sandy-bodied male, and a greenish-bodied female. The fly is a
worthy fly, and being easily imitated, gives great sport, in number
rather than in size; for when the March-brown is out, the two or
three pound fish are seldom on the move, preferring leeches, tom-
toddies, and caddis-bait in the nether deeps, to slim ephemerae at
the top; and if you should (as you may) get hold of a big fish on the
fly, 'you'd best hit him in again,' as we say in Wessex; for he will
be, like the Ancient Mariner -


'Long, and lank, and brown,