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keep the colour. This fly kills well on windy days. 

 The little House Fly I dress as follows ; hook, No. 2. 

 The best imitation for the body is two or three strands 

 from a brown freckled turkey tail feather, wrapped close 

 down the body, a short piece of light stone coloured 

 Berlin wool tied in at the shoulder underneath, doubled 

 back and tied in at the end of the hook, which gives that 

 strip of light color that is seen in the natural fly. The 

 hackle may be either from a black hen's neck or a glossy 

 feather from the starling breast ; the wings are two broad 

 pieces taken from the dark starling wing feather, and set 

 on flat like the Blue Bottle. 



THE SMALL WILLOW OR NEEDLE BROWN. 



This little fly is extremely abundant on some 

 streams all the season, but more especially during the 

 months of September and October, and is taken very 

 freely by trout and greyling. I had always found a 

 difficulty in imitating this fly satisfactorily till the autumn 

 of 1878, when I went to Pembridge in October to fish 

 the Arrow for greyling. I had with we- a book of choice 

 flies, but the weather being so unfavourable, I had no 

 opportunity of using them, for it commenced raining 

 the day I went. I only had two hours fishing the next 

 morning when, with perseverance I took a brace of 

 greyling with a small palmer and my blue bottle. I 

 found the Needle Brown on the water in great numbers, 

 but unfortunately had none with me. Had I possessed 

 a good imitation of this little creature, I believe I should 

 have killed a few brace of greyling, as they were taking 



