98 AUTUMNAL 



rejected ; at another time a faint ripple on the surface and 

 a slight tug is the only indication of a rise, and I have 

 generally observed that the largest fish take the fly in 

 this manner. What a delightful sensation it is when, 

 upon striking gently, you experience the familiar steady 

 pull and determined resistance of a fine grayling. Many 

 writers of experience recommend fine-drawn gut for this 

 kind of flyfishing, but for my own part I prefer single horse 

 hair, being less liable to ravel with the twisting play so 

 characteristic of this fish. The needle brown, cinnamon 

 fly, red ant, orange dun, willow fly, and blue midge, are all 

 excellent flies for grayling during the autumn months ; and 

 I can also strongly recommend the patterns given in the 

 following list, having tested them practically for many 

 seasons on both the Yore and Wharfe. 



No. 1. The honey dun bumble. Body, claret floss silk, 

 ribbed with bright peacock's harl, with a pure honey dun 

 hackle wound on hackle wise. Remarks : this and the two 

 following patterns are considered standard grayling flies on 

 the Derbyshire rivers ; they kill well when there is no par- 

 ticular fly on the water in fact I rarely make up a cast in 

 autumn without one at the point. 



No. 2. The orange bumble. Body, orange floss silk, rib- 

 bed with bronze peacock's harl, arid a pure blue dun hackle 

 over it. 



No. 3. The ruby bumble. Body, ruby-coloured floss silk, 

 ribbed with bronze peacock's harl, and a dark dun hackle 

 as in preceding pattern. 



No. 4. The little chap. Body, the reddest strand of a 

 peacock's feather, legged and winged hacklewise with a 

 lightish dun hackle and mulberry coloured silk. Remarks : 

 this is Mr. Ronalds' pattern, and is a first-rate killer ; it 

 may also be dressed as a winged fly, with a feather taken 

 from the darkest part of a starling's wing ; synonym, the 

 peacock fly, 



