"Ephemeridae" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... only heed an artificial fly that is dropped in front of them with upstanding wings, and in form of body and appendages, as in the manner of its progress on the surface of the stream, this counterfeit presentment must strictly imitate the small ephemeridae which are hatching in the bed and floating down the surface of the stream. As the trout do not rise until the natural fly appears, and as the hatches of fly are capricious, there are often weary hours of ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior |
