474 AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



A description of the flies represented on the colored plates 

 may here fitly be introduced, and the more so because the 

 majority of them are departures from the usual patterns. 



Plate i A. — Poor Man's Fly. — Body, worsted or seal's 

 fur; hackle, white; wings, gray turkey wing- feather. 



Fig. 27, 



B. — Brown Squirrel Hackle. — The body of this capital 

 Bass and Trout fly is composed of a strip of brown or red 

 squirrel fur; the hackle is a reddish-brown one from the game 

 rooster; tail-fibers from ibis wing-feather. 



C. — Black JuNE(quill body). — This is a new dressing of a 

 favorite fly for Bass. The ordinary "Black June" is endowed 

 with a peacock herl body, and this being frail, soon gets cut 

 by the sharp teeth of the fish. 



To obviate the danger of this, I make it of a strip of cjuill 



