GOOD GENERAL FLIES. 119 



larva' is a recent invention of that clever artist: 

 it will be found the best general fly extant, and, 

 when made by him of different sizes, will super- 

 sede many trout and salmon flies hitherto favour- 

 ites. I have the greatest faith in its virtues : 



No. 64. The winged larva. This fly is double- 

 bodied, the first being very short and made of 

 fiery brown mohair wound on the hook up to the 

 wings ; the second body, from which the fly takes 

 its name, is made of the shrivelled larva of the 

 silkworm, found attached to the refuse ends of gut. 

 It is to be placed beneath the mohair body, and 

 to extend from the setting on of the wings to 

 the bend of the hook which it hides. Its tail is 

 formed of two fibres of the golden pheasant's 

 neck-feather : its wings are mixed of hen-phea- 

 sant's tail and grey tail-feather of the partridge, 

 and when used for salmon there should be two 

 * toppings ' in the wing. Legs, a woodcock's 

 hackle, and for salmon a fiery brown cock's hackle ; 

 head, bronze peacock's harl. This famous fly can 

 be dressed on from a No. 4 and 5 salmon hook, 

 to a No. 10 trout hook. 



No. 65. The amber-fly. Body, cinnamon- 

 brown mohair; wings, mixture of the red and 

 grey tail-feathers of the partridge ; legs, an amber 

 hackle struck on from the tail to the shoulder. 

 Hook, Nos. 9 and 10. 



No. 66. The golden olive.- -Body, golden olive 



