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fessor/ a * grouse and yellow/ or an ' early 

 dun/ or a ( March brown ' with light wing and 

 yellow twist (or the female), or a large ' Green- 

 well's glory ' with gold-rib. Or if the river is 

 lower and sizes have to be reduced, then the 

 medium sizes of Walbran's hackles ' water- 

 hen and gold-rib/ ' waterhen bloa/ ( watchet ' 

 ' small iron dun/ ' snipe bloa/ etc. ' Early 

 duns ' ought to be dressed very light and with 

 three shades at least of wing (woodcock, 

 starling, and corn bunting). A ' red-spinner ' 

 kills best in medium water in the 'amber' 

 stage or higher, even to ' drumly ' if big 

 enough. 



When 'clear' and 'crystal' are reached 

 the hackles begin to come in: black, grey, 

 partridge and orange, partridge and yellow, 

 grey partridge, priest (see list, etc.), and Wai- 

 bran's hackles. Black hackles, with slight 

 purply gloss in the larger sizes, but plain, dull 

 black in the smaller sizes, are always useful, 

 but perhaps most so in the lower stages of 

 water. A 'Zulu/ i.e. black hackle with red tag, 

 is more useful in darker water. A ' partridge ' 

 and blue body is sometimes useful as a mid- 

 summer fly under a blue sky, and a 'grey 



