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pounds, had it been in full season. On the 

 23rd of March, 1836, we killed, with this fly, 

 from one and the same standing, sixteen trout 

 and one grayling. We fished with two flies of 

 this sort on our casting-line at the same time, 

 and we caught three times, successively, two 

 fish at a cast. We should have caught many 

 more, were it not for an accident that 

 occurred to our tackle, for before we could 

 repair the damage caused by it, rising time 

 was over. From the middle of March, to the 

 middle of April, it is decidedly the best and 

 most killing fly that can be fished with. We 

 recommend the angler to fish with two flies of 

 this sort on his casting-line at the same time, 

 one ribbed with gold-twist, and the other 

 without. The best time of fishing with this 

 fly is, between the hours of eleven and three 

 o'clock, especially if the water is curled by 

 a smart breeze. 



We dress this fly as follows : Body, orange- 

 coloured silk, or deep-straw-colour, on which 

 wind for dubbing the fox-coloured fur taken 

 from a hare's poll ; legs, a honey-dun hackle ; 

 wings, the top of the light or inner fibres strip- 

 ped from the feather of the hen pheasant's 

 wing. Rib with gold-twist for your tail-fly; 

 let your dropper, when you use one, be without 

 any twist. 



