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for legs, a small black glossy feather from the starling 

 breast, or a small black hen's hackle. It kills well dressed 

 buzz, with two turns of a glossy starling breast feather on 

 the same body; and a tag of silver tinsel makes it 

 attractive. 



THE COCH-Y-BONDDU, 



Or, as some call it, the Marlow Buzz, is one of my 

 standard flies, and no angler should be without it. I 

 have always had the best sport with the smallest size, 

 particularly in Derbyshire, where I have filled my basket 

 numbers of times with this little buzz fly. It is very 

 important to have a good furnace hackle for this fly, and 

 I will here describe what I call a good furnace hackle. 

 It should be a dark blood red, both sides as much alike 

 as possible, with a black centre and black edges ; the dark 

 red shewing between the centre and the edge, and should 

 taper down to a point. When I was a lad I could find 

 this coloured bird at any barn door ; but now you may 

 travel a hundred miles and not see one the right colour, 

 which I think must be owing to the decrease in the 

 breeding of game fowls. The dressing for the body 

 should be peacock herl tinted with magenta dye, which 

 gives it a rich bronze colour. Use orange-coloured silk 

 for tying it, waxed with white wax, and, after wrapping on 

 the gut, make a tag with fine gold tinsel, bring the silk 

 back to the head and tie in the furnace hackle ; show 

 one or two wraps of orange silk at the head ; take three 

 turns of the hackle, tie it in securely, with one strand of 

 peacock herl close up to the hackle ; wrap the herl evenly 



