96 ARTIFICIAL FLIES FOR MARCH. 



everywhere. In a work I edited formerly, I find 

 the following note: c On the 23rd of March, 

 1836, we killed with this fly, from one and the 

 same standing on the Dove, sixteen trout and 

 one grayling. We fished with two flies of this 

 sort on our casting-line at the same time, and we 

 caught three times successively two fish at one 

 cast. We should have caught many more, had it 

 not been for an accident that occurred to our 

 tackle; for, before we could repair the damage 

 caused by it, the rising time of the fish was over. 

 From the middle of March to the middle of April 

 it is decidedly the best and most killing fly that 

 can be fished with in the trout-streams of the 

 midland counties. We recommend the angler to 

 fish with two flies of this sort on his casting-line 

 at the same time, one ribbed with gold twist, and 

 the other without. The best time for fishing with 

 this fly is between the hours of eleven and three 

 o'clock, especially if the water be curled by a 

 smart breeze.' 



Dress this famous fly as follows : Body, orange- 

 coloured silk, or deep straw colour, over which 

 wind some fox-coloured fur taken from a hare's 

 poll ; legs, a honey-dun hackle ; wings, to stand 

 erect, of the top of the light or inner fibres of the 

 feather of the hen pheasant's wing; tail, two 

 fibres of the same feather. Eib with gold twist 

 for your tail-fly, and let your dropper be without 



