THE

FLY-FISHER'S ENTOMOLOGY,

ILLUSTRATED BY

COLOURED REPRESENTATIONS

OF THE

NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL INSECT:

AND ACCOMPANIED BY

A FEW OBSERVATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS

RELATIVE TO

TROUT-AND-GRAYLING FISHING.

BY ALFRED RONALDS.

Fourth Edition, corrected.

WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES.

"Devouring Ephemerals! Can you not suffer the poor insects to sport out their day?
They must be insipid eating-but here are some savoury exceedingly****** they
carry sauce piquante in their tails. Do try the taste of this Bobber-but any of the
three you please-There! Hold fast Kirby-for that's a Whopper."

CHRISTOPHER NORTH.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

LONDON:

SPOTTISWOODES and SHAW,

New-street-Square.

PREFACE

TO THE FIRST EDITION.

THE Author of this little work entreats that it may be considered and judged of as the labour, or rather the amusement, of an amateur; whose chief object has been to facilitate to the Tyro in the art, the making and choice of artificial flies, on a plan of elucidation derived from personal expe

rience.

Having himself sorely felt the inadequacy of mere verbal instructions to enable him to imitate the natural fly correctly, or even approximatively, and the little utility of graphical illustrations unaccompanied by the principal requisite, viz. colour, he has been induced to paint both the natural and artificial fly from nature, to etch them with his own hand, and to colour, or superintend the colouring of each particular impression.

He therefore presumes to hope that he