Another flick of the long, limber rod mends the line, swimming the brace of wet flies - a Coachman as an attractor and a Woodcock and Green to imitate the hatching green drakes - across the stream ...

Anglers who know a lot more about entomology than I do say that most of us misname the Hex, calling it a Green Drake, as in, 'Hey, Joe — you really missed it.