FLIES FOR MARCH. 69 



variety of the most beautiful pea green colour 

 imaginable ; but the black body is by far the 

 most frequently met with, and therefore the fly 

 with this colour is usually fished with. 



IMITATION. 



BODY. Mole fur, ribbed over with black 

 ostrich, when spun on black silk. 



WINGS AND LEGS. Made buzz with a dun 

 hackle, the tint a shade or two lighter than that 

 of the natural wings. Hook, No. 4, long. 



When this fly is made with wings and legs not 

 buzz, the dun feather of the wing of the mallard 

 is used, and a grizzled hackle for legs, upon the 

 same body. 



REMARKS. The use of & smaller i Spring Black ' 

 than the above is recommended in preference. 



BODY. Black ostrich herl. 



WINGS AND LEGS. Purplish breast feather of 

 a cock starling, wound on as a hackle. Hook, 

 No. 1, long. 



The larger black flies are seldom observed so 

 early in the season. But a black fly of one sort 

 or another is seldom useless on your lash. 



