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JANUARY.* 



Red-brown Fly : The body of this fly is 

 to be dubbed with dark-brown mohair. The 

 wings are to be made of the feather from a 

 starling or dotterel's wing. It is to be tied on 

 or dressed with red silk. Will kill from eleven 

 to three o' clock, f 



Blue Dun: The bodyf of this fly is to be 



* We confess we begin the fly-fishing season rather early, 

 but we do so, that the enthusiast in the art may not want 

 instructions for any month of the year. Flies are to be 

 found on the water in the coldest months of the year. 

 " Even," Sir H. Davy says, " in December and January, 

 there are a few small gnats or water-flies on the water in 

 the middle of the day, in bright days, or when there is sun- 

 shine." We caught ourselves this year, on the 19th of 

 February, in the midst of the snow and frost, two fish, a 

 grayling and a trout, and we did not endeavour to catch 

 any more, for we simply wanted a single specimen of each 

 fish as a model for our artist to design after. The grayling 

 was caught with a dark-blue-dun hackle, and the trout 

 with the common furnace hackle. They weighed each 

 exactly one pound. 



t With this fly our father caught early one day in Janu- 

 ary on the Dove, between Norbury Weir and Dove Leys, 

 thirteen grayling and five trout. Four of the grayling 

 weighed two pounds each. The fish were taken between 

 half-past eleven and two o'clock. 



Whenever we do not mention what sized hook a fly is to 

 be dressed upon, it must be understood that we mean a 

 No. 2 Kendal. 



$ The silk with which the fly is dressed, is often sufficient 

 to form the body of a slender fly. We shall often, there- 



