118 SPRING FLIES KILL IN AUTUMN. 



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Still continue the palmer-hackles, with the 

 grouse and wren hackles, golden and dark duns, 

 alder-fly, Hofland's fancy, the cinnamon-fly, and 

 the following : 



No. 64. Harry long-legs. Body, light dun 

 fur, mixed with hare's ear and a very little yellow 

 mohair, made taper, long, and thin ; wings, hen- 

 pheasant's tail mixed with a few fibres of brown 

 mallard feather ; legs, which are long and few, of 

 a brown-red cock's saddle-feather. Hook, Nos. 7 

 and 8. This is an excellent evening fly when 

 ribbed with gold. 



Many of the spring flies will kill in September, 

 after which no angler should fish for trout until 

 spring returns again. In October, and during 

 the finest hours of very fine winter -days, grayling 

 are to be caught with the artificial fly, and the 

 best are unquestionably duns, blacks, and browns. 

 That fish being, during the above season, in fine 

 condition, will be caught with the gentle and, by 

 sinking and drawing, with the artificial grass- 

 hopper. It will also rise well in October at the 

 red-palmer, the soldier-palmer, and house-fly. 



The seven following flies are exclusively Mr. 

 Blacker's patterns : they will be found universal 

 killers. The fly which is called the 'winged 



