American trout-stream insects Author:Louis Rhead Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTORY NOTE Oveb twenty years ago Mary Orvis Marbury, in her well-known and useful book, "Favorite Flies," wrote: "At present fishermen are chiefly... more » indebted to the fly-makers of Great Britain for copies of the insects alluring to game fish . . . and until we have studied more thoroughly our own stream life 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,' would be of great value." To-day conditions remain the same. No one, as yet, has seen fit to undertake such a collection of American insects; although in the interval several important books on English insects have been issued—notably, Halford's "Entomology" andLeonard West's "The Natural Trout Fly and Its Imitations." Now that so many American fly-fishermen desire a knowledge of this subject, it would seem that the time has arrived for a book on American insects; from the fact that anglers in all parts of the country have requested me to undertake this much- needed work. In this volume I purpose to describe and picture in colors a selected number of the most abundant and most common insects that trout feed upon in a typical American trout stream, and to show, side by side with these, correct artificial imitation flies tied by my own hands, in order that anglers may better understand how to choose their own flies and thus be enabled to lure fish with greater success and pleasure than heretofore. In a handbook of this kind it would not be possible to include all of the large...« less