102 PRACTICAL LESSONS IN RIVER ANGLING. 



times be dressed upon very strong single gut. Any 

 feathers of a coppery or dingy yellow colour, if not too 

 coarse in the fibres, will be suitable for the wings ; the 

 body is of lemon-coloured mohair, mixed with a small 

 portion of light brown fur, or camlet, with a pale 

 dusky ginger hackle, over the whole. The chief object 

 to be attended to in dressing this fly, is to produce that 

 uniform hue, devoid of gaudy colouring, from which it 

 has received its name. 



For a summer fly the wings are made from the 

 plumes of a cormorant, or from the mottled feathers of 

 a dark mallard : the body is of dark sable, ribbed with 

 gold wire, over which a dusky red hackle is thickly 

 wound ; the mottled feathers of a drake are used for 

 the tail ; and, previous to fastening it off, a small portion 

 of flos silk should be unravelled, and fastened at the 

 extremity of the hook. 



