220 SALMON AND TROUT. 



THE 'SPRING GRUB.' 



Tag: Silver twist and light blue silk. 



Tail : Scarlet ibis and blue macaw in married strips. 



Body : In two sections having three hackles as illustrated : in the 

 place of the butt. 



Butt: A furnace hackle dyed orange. The first half of the body 

 yellow silk ribbed with black chenille. 



In the centre is placed a natural blue hackle. The second half of the 

 body black silk ribbed with silver tinsel, and the shoulder, or head 

 hackles, a natural coch-y-bonddu, and a gallina dyed dark orange. 



This is one of my earliest of the scorpion tribe, and belongs to a 

 numerous collection of wingless flies which are coming more and more 

 into fashion. There are times when fish require a good deal of coaxing, 

 and on many days they will rise in pool after pool merely, as it were, for 

 the sake of inquisitiveness. Upon these occasions especially I make it a 

 rule to tone down the colours by mixing them with deeper shades, and 

 dress then and there a fly of this description, if, that is, I do not happen to 

 have a suitable one by me. The pattern here given I have often found a 

 good change with Excelsior, Jock Scott, &c. I have found these wingless 

 ' nondescripts ' kill well wherever I have fished, and every standard 

 fly should, I believe, be partially imitated in a similar fashion. 



The ' Spring grub ' completes the list of general standard 

 flies, with one or other of which, from the beginning to the end 

 of the season, and in any part of the United Kingdom, salmon 

 are to be killed if at all. 



