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Of the foreffoino; I have found Nos. 1. and 9. 

 kill through the whole season. No. 9. I con- 

 sider one of the most useful of flies. I have 

 sometimes, even in the brightest water, suc- 

 ceeded with Nos. 7. and 8., when other flies 

 have failed. These two have only been given 

 to illustrate the style of fly I wish to designate. 

 Others, with the same scanty, ragged-looking 

 hackle, but varying the body, are equally good. 

 No. 10. is principally used for taking the 

 Lastspring, or Salmon-fry ; a disgraceful prac- 

 tice, though, I am sorry to say, very commonly 

 followed in the Wye and other rivers. In the 

 Wye, thousands are taken in a week, and sold 

 openly in Hereford. The fly with a green 

 body (a variation on Nos. 7. and 8.) must 

 be made with the body short and thick, and 

 the hackle not twisted more than twice round. 

 With this I have repeatedly had great sport ; 

 and the first time I observed it was in the 

 throat of a Trout. There is a very small 

 green insect of the Grasshopper kind, with 

 minute speckled legs, sufficiently abundant in 



