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mostly mottled brown or dusky wings, with dark legs and brown 

 or yellowish bodies. 



A third class of artificial flies taking the term in its popular 

 acceptation, without regarding the palpable misnomer in- 

 cludes the palmers or rough caterpillars and the beetles. These 

 may be usefully classed together, as they are formed of similar 

 materials (the cock's hackle being generally dominant in both), 

 and used in much the same states of the water. To these 

 three distinct classes I would add for convenience a fourth or 



* miscellaneous ' class, comprising a great variety of insects not 

 distinctively aquatic but occasionally attractive to trout and 

 grayling. 



I begin my list with the flies which I have found most use- 

 ful all through the year on a great variety of waters ; purposely 

 limiting the number, in order that anglers who trust the results 

 of my experience may, in the stocking of their fly books, avoid 

 that embarras de richesses which will lead them to perplexity 

 at the outset and useless changes in the course of a day's fishing. 

 It should always be remembered that the fly is often blamed 

 for the mood of the fish, and altered perhaps just when they 

 are beginning to feed. 



r. The Yellow Dun. This fly is good throughout the 

 trout season, and is taken freely by grayling in August and 

 September. 



2. The Hare's Lug. This is the form of the blue dun 

 with which I have done most execution through the year. 

 In Wales, Scotland and the northern counties of England 

 I prefer it to No. i. 



3. The Marlow Buzz, or Cockabundy (a corruption of 



* Coch-y-bonddu '). This not only makes the best of droppers 

 in rough mountain and moorland streams, where it is indis- 

 pensable, but if tied very small, and dark may be depended on 

 in the clearest streams those of Hampshire, for instance, or 

 Derbyshire especially when there are but few Ephemera on 

 the water. 



4. The Red Sand Fly.-^ I have found this fly very killing 



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