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dark and yellow rings, fish must like its appear- 

 ance. I have always had the best opinion of 

 these regularly party-coloured flies, with some- 

 what large bodies, ringed with either black and 

 white, black and yellow, brown and yellow, or 

 orange spiral stripes, and having large, reticulated, 

 transparent wings, with dark heads, and darkish 

 tails. Such are the March-brown, the oak-fly, 

 the hare's-ear-and-yellow, the wasp-fly, and a few 

 others. If these flies are tied very large, they 

 will kill salmon, the largest species of trout, and 

 the largest chub. Tied on 9 and 10 hooks, they 

 are excellent general brook-flies for trout and 

 grayling. The wasp-fly is dressed thus : Body, 

 light orange mohair, dubbed in very thin ribs, 

 and alternated with black ostrich harl, neatly and 

 finely. Form the head of bronze harl; legs, 

 two turns of a light brown-red hackle. Hook, 

 No. 7, 8, and 9 ; and make the wings of a par- 

 tridge-hackle or mottled mallard's feather. Dress 

 it large, and the fly will kill well in the Thames. 

 There are evening and night flies which come 

 into use towards the latter end of May, and last 

 during the whole of the summer. They are imi- 

 tations of those large moths that are seen towards 

 nightfall flitting about the meadows in warm 

 weather. The dark-coloured should be used 

 early in the evening, those of a lighter colour 

 after sunset, and those that are white after that. 



