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* neck,' as shown in the diagram, to receive the knot. The 

 length of the hook-shank is specially designed to allow of this. 



' FURNACE-BROWN ' DRESSED ON SNECK-BEND UP-TURN SHANK 

 EYED HOOK. 



i. The ' Blue upright,' dressed with yellowish-grey quill body and slate-blue 

 hackle and whisks (no wings). 2. The ' Red spinner.' Pale crimson crewel 

 body, sparely ribbed with the finest gold thread (not oval) ; dark-red 

 (natural) cock's hackle with darker stem ; whisks, 3 fibres of hackle (no wings). 

 3. The ' Furnace-brown.' [A fly of my own, with which I have had sport in 

 the streams (and not infrequently in the lakes also) of England, Ireland, Scot- 

 land, and Wales] : Body very dark chocolate-coloured silk, ribbed, sparely, 

 with fine gold thread (not oval) ; dark furnace-hackle, with darker stem ; whisk, 

 3 fibres of the same. 4. ' Wickham's Fancy. ' Body gold tinsel , with red hackle 

 over ; whisks, 2 or 3 strands of red hackle. 



With regard to the selection of flies of one colour or 

 another to suit particular days and skies, there are almost as 

 many different opinions as there are writers on fishing, and I 

 confess I have never been able myself to arrive at any sufficiently 

 ' verifiable ' theory to justify me in adding another theory to the 

 list. Perhaps the most commonly held view amongst anglers 

 themselves is that when the weather is .dark, a dark fly kills 

 best, and vice versa. 



I might formulate the theory in a sort of nursery-rhyme : 



Dark weather, dark feather, 

 Weather bright, feather light. 



Whatever be the practice or theory adopted, however, I think 

 a sufficient choice of colours is afforded by the foregoing list. 



Messrs. Farlow have also my dressings and patterns of all 

 my flies. 



H. CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL. 



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