THE GREEN DRAKE. 



I HAVE made this fly my especial study from a lad, and 

 have always felt the greatest interest in watching its 

 progress from the bed of the river, and have dressed it 

 in every way imaginable. When a lad I commenced 

 tying them buzz, with a strand of buff-coloured wool for 

 the body ; tail, three strands of hen pheasant tail feather, 

 set on rather long ; for wings and legs, a mallard breast 

 feather dyed yellow with fustic chips and copperas. For 

 a change I used a bittern hackle set in with the dyed 

 mallard, and many a basket of fine trout have I made 

 with this buzz fly. Another good pattern is two or three 

 turns of bittern hackle at the head, and ribbed down the 

 same body as above, at intervals, not too close. Snip off 

 the fibres nearly close to the wool, leaving the two turns 

 at the head for legs. Wings stripped from the dyed 

 mallard feather, and set on last. I used this, as a sunk 

 fly, for many years with great success, and have noticed 

 that when the fish would take a sunk fly it was by far the 

 most deadly, and did not require half the labour or skill 

 as the dry fly. I continued using the sunk fly till I 



