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PRACTICAL LESSONS IN RIVER ANGLING. 



The prime dun. a, the natural fly ; /), the artificial fly. 



Flies for March. 

 The season now improves, and in the warm cloudy 

 days, which sometimes occur, good sport may be ob- 

 tained. The leading fly of this month is the dun 

 drake or March brown, and by corruption, Moorish 

 brown {Ephemerci). The body is dubbed with hare's 

 ear fur and yellow worsted, or with black wool whipped 

 with red silk ; the wings are taken from the mottled 

 feather of a partridge's tail ; and the hackle is taken 

 from a grey cock. The hooks used are No. 7 and No. 

 8. Carroll says the trouts refuse every other fly while 

 this is on the water. 



The dun drake, or March brown, a, the natural fly ; b, the artificial fly. 



Another March fly, which does not, however, belong 

 to the water except by accident, is the cow-dung fly 



