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" My sixth fly I will distinguish by calling it the 

 Maule fly, which, though not much different from my 

 first fly, yet is in some points peculiar ; and principally 

 in this, that Mr. Maule hardly ever used any but this one 

 kind, only varying the size of it from the largest size of 

 hook (generally used on heavy water) down to the very 

 smallest, little abcv^ the size of a large trout fly, say 

 No. 9 or 10 of Adlington's. From the least to the largest 

 size this fly was made up of a medium colour of sky-blue 

 fine wool, with small pallid tinsel, or no tinsel, and a very 

 peculiar cock hackle : to wit, black from the root up 

 along the middle stem to fully half the length, then 

 running into red out to the top and a light or orange 

 tuft for tail the wings of a soft mottled turkey tail 

 feather, dark grey. Mr. Maule in dressing this fly 

 differed from my mode of dressing. Instead of cutting off 

 the pair of wings from the feather, and putting them on 

 unbroken in the web, he tore them from the stem, then 

 equalising their points, pirled them between his thumb 

 and finger till well mixed ; then tied them on with their 

 tops laid back, adjusting the root with knife or scissors. 

 He then folded them forward and divided them equally ; 

 and next, by several crossings of the fine thread, tied 

 them solidly in position, and trimmed off the fly. This 

 fly he sunk by means of a blue silk casting line, which 

 he had pointed off with five or six lengths of gut. In 

 throwing this line he beat everybody ; and from his art 

 in sinking it, he brought it to near the fish on his lair at 

 the bottom ; and by these means he was more successful 

 generally than any other fisher." 



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