72 FLIES FOR MARCH. 



It is made thus : BODY, the reddest strand of a 

 peacock's feather. 



LEGS AND WINGS. A lightish dun hackle; 

 made with mulberry -coloured silk. It is called 

 " The Little Chap/' and is described with varia- 

 tions, by Arundo, in " Practical Fly-fishing," p. 26. 



No. 8. MARCH BROWN. 



The nympha of this fly seems to require a 

 warmer day to enable it to rise to the surface of 

 the water, and to change to a fly, than is re- 

 quired for the similar rise and metamorphosis of 

 the Blue Dun's nympha (No. 2) ; the fly lives 

 three days in the state represented in the figure, 

 then changes into the Great Red Spinner (see 

 fig. 9). The male has a chocolate hue, and the 

 female a green brown ; it generally appears in 

 great numbers upon the streams, where it is 

 found toward the latter end of March, and is 

 very eagerly devoured by the Trout. It con- 

 tinues in season until May ; and although it can 

 only occasionally be found later, recent ex- 

 perience has convinced me of the propriety of 

 using it, upon some waters, as late even as July 

 or August. 



