210 Wet- Fly Fishing. 



TABLE I. 



SOME USEFUL WINGED FLIES FOR WET-FLY FISHING, 

 AND HOW THEY ARE DRESSED. 



I. GREENWELL'S GLORY. 



Body. The yellow tying silk, waxed with cobbler's wax, 

 to impart to the body a greenish-yellow hue. This is ribbed 

 over with yellow gimp, or finest gold wire. 

 k. Hackle. Coch-y-Bonddhu. 



Wings. Blackbird, tied in a bunch, and split. 



Season. April, May, June, and September ; in fact, it is 

 the most valuable and generally useful of all the wet flies 

 known to the author, who obtained the pattern direct from 

 the Rev. Canon Greenwell himself, so that it is authentic. 



II. MARCH BROWN. 



(MALE AND FEMALE.) 



Male. 



Body. Hare's ear, ribbed with yellow gimp. 

 Tail. Two strands of mallard feather. 

 Hackle. Dark partridge feather. 

 Wings. Taken from the tail of the pheasant. 

 Season. April. 



