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rise for an hour or two, in bright and tolerably 

 warm weather ; and, at this time, the smallest 

 imitations of black or pale gnats that can be 

 made, on the smallest sized hook, succeed 

 best in taking them. In March, the dark- 

 bodied willow fly may be regarded as the ear- 

 liest fly ; the imitation of which is made by a 

 dark claret dubbing and a dun hackle, or four 

 small starling's wing feathers. The blue dun 

 comes on in the middle of the day in this 

 month, and is imitated by dun hackles for 

 wings and legs, and an olive dubbing for body. 

 In mild weather, in morning and evening, in 

 this month, and through April, the green tail, 

 or grannom, comes on in great quantities, and 

 is well imitated by a hen pheasant's wing 

 feather, a gray or red hackle for legs, and a 

 dark peacock's harle, or dark hare's ear fur, 

 for the body. The same kind of fly, of a 

 larger size, w^th paler wings, kills well in the 

 evening, through May or June. The imita- 

 tion of a water insect, called the spider fly, 

 with a lead-coloured body, and woodcock's 

 wings, is said to be a killing bait, on this and 

 other rivers, in the end of April and beginning 



