It is not necessary for me to give any more recipes 

 for dyeing materials or hackles for fly dressing, as Judson 

 has conferred a boon to the angling world and the public 

 in general, by bringing out his useful dyes, of every shade, 

 at a trifling cost, with full instructions for using them. 



THE GREY DRAKE. 



This is an excellent killer, and I have frequently 

 taken a fine trout with my artificial grey drake, when they 

 have refused the green drake, alder fly, and yellow dun. 

 I have dressed them in a variety of ways, with wool 

 bodies and straw bodies, but shall only fully describe my 

 latest improvement, which I find is the best pattern of 

 any : Hook, No. 6 ; tail, three or four strands of bright 

 freckled guinea fowl feather; body, a bright straw, 

 nicely tapered, and a strand of fine black sewing silk 

 ribbed over it at intervals. Then take a long guinea fowl 

 feather, strip off the right side of the feather, and snip 

 off the other side, not close, leaving it about the eighth of 

 an inch long, tie it in at the shoulder with a few inches of 

 silver tinsel, rib the tinsel down to the tails on the black 

 silk to prevent it slipping, and rib the hackle down by 

 the side of the tinsel, keeping it on the edge that is 

 stripped off. Finish off with the black silk, under the 

 tails, with one wrap and two hitches. The wings for grey 

 drakes should be the speckled feather taken from the side 

 of the teal's breast. Set two of these feathers on quite 

 upright, back to back ; turn the quill ends back and tie 

 them in ; form the wheel at the head with two or three 

 turns of black ostrich herl, and tie in a small gallinae 



