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water,' and having described them he winds up by 

 affirming that * thus you have a jury of flies likely to 

 betray and condemn all the trouts in the river.' 

 Without going into the tying of the various flies he 

 recommends, it would seem that even now it is un- 

 necessary to have more varieties in your box or book 

 than the number here mentioned. 



The names of those flies which would seem to be 

 most generally useful at least in the estimation of 

 the writer are : 



The March brown. 

 The Red-spinner. 

 The Alder. 

 The Olive- dun. 

 The Red-quill-gnat. 

 The Olive-quill-gnat. 

 The Governor. 



Wickham's Fancy. 



The Black-gnat. 



The Yellow-dun. 



The Hare's-ear-dun 

 (with gold-ribbed body for 

 choice). 



The Iron-blue-dun. 



This of course is only a list of ' general utility ' 

 flies which I would suggest should always be in the 

 possession of the angler. 



Every river has its own private list, which should 

 usually be carefully studied. For example, in Derby- 

 shire, where would one be without having in one's 

 fly-box some ' Bumbles,' and Ash-duns, and Apple- 

 green-duns ? Or on the Test when the ' Grannom ' 

 is * up,' without the exact, or as nearly exact as pos- 



