WET FLY 57 



FLIES (WET) 



I. Halfstone (spring). 2. Maxwell's Red 

 (spring). 3. Maxwell's Blue (spring). 4. Pheas- 

 ant Tail, tied with brassy -dun hackle (all the 

 season). 5. Gold-ribbed Hare's Ear, tied with 

 brassy-dun hackle (spring and autumn, or after a 

 summer freshet). 6. The Olive Quills, pale, 

 medium and dark (May to end July). 7. Black 

 Gnat, tied with perfectly flat-lying snipe wing, 

 black floss body and small black hackle (May to 

 end July). 8. Red Quill, tied buzz (summer). 

 9. Hare's Lug (all the season). 10. Body ; yellow 

 floss, tied buzz, with small landrail hackle ; 

 good often on hot bright days. For evening 

 work : u. Coachman with landrail wing, or 

 ordinary white wing. 12. Body, mole's fur ribbed 

 silver wire, tied buzz with smoky blue-dun 

 hackle, tail ditto. To these last may be added 

 the Silver, Orange and Cinnamon Sedges. I may 

 here suggest that Messrs. Peek, 40, Gray's Inn 

 Road, London, W.C., tie exquisite wet flies at 

 2S. per dozen. 



A blessing on the man who invented eyed hooks, 

 whose evolution has now reached as near perfec- 

 tion as possible. Of these, I think the best are 

 the Pennell Limerick and the Model-Perfect, and 

 the last have been recently immensely improved 



