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PRACTICAL LESSONS IN RIVER ANGLING. 



The prime dun. a, the natural fly ; b, 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 (Ephemera). 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 



