266 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 
then, if they are to be used to any purpose, it is always 
when the water is curled by a breeze; and more fre- 
quently when the sky is clouded ; in fly-fishing for Chub, ~ 
on the contrary, the calmest of days with the brightest 
of suns, is the combination of weather most favourable 
for sport. I have also invariably found a black fly the 
most killing ; and this has been the result of my ex- 
perience —a tolerably long one —not only on bright 
days, but in dull gloomy weather, and sometimes late 
into the dusk evening, when it was so dark that to my 
eyes not only the colour of the fly, but the fly itself was 
indistinguishable. Appended is the engraving of a 
Chub fly which fulfils the two conditions explained, and 
which I myself use—dressed, of course, of different sizes 
from the beginning to the end of the season, in all 
weathers, and at all times of the day. I advise my 
brother anglers to give it a 
fair trial, and I think they 
will not be disappointed. The 
legs are made of black hackle, 
which should be as long as 
the body of the fly, and extra 
thick and bushy ; the body of 
black ostrich herl, and the tail 
of the same, white or satin-coloured. As it is the fashion 
The Sweep. 
amongst anglers to christen their offspring, I have 
named my sooty-featured nondescript, “the sweep.” 
The fly shown in the engraving is dressed on a No. 10 
