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cease to give preference to one coloured fly over 

 another, and, therefore, I will willingly describe 

 a few flies which I consider killers for such wea- 

 ther and water as the present, namely, bright sun, 

 with flying, screening, clouds, rippling breeze, 

 and low and bright water. But let me first inti- 

 mate to you that on pools much deeper than we 

 have fished this morning, and on rapids, you dress 

 them on larger hooks ; and, on streams, on 

 smaller hooks. Well, then, the first fly I had on, 

 and which killed a fish, was about fifteen-six- 

 teenths of an inch long, from shank-end to 

 bend. This fly I made from Ronalds 's beautiful 

 work, the " Fly-Fisher's Entomology," as the 

 stone-fly for trout. Its tail is composed of two 

 fibres of a long grouse hackle. The body is a 

 mixture of bright yellow mohair, and a con- 

 siderably predominating portion of the fur from 

 a hare's ear ; but there is a greater pro- 

 portion of the mohair at the tail, which gives it 

 a yellow appeance in that part. Over this, 

 representing the joints in the fly's body, is wound, 

 spirally, palish yellow floss silk. The hackle for 

 the legs, is dyed a dark olive, and the wings are 

 made of about fifty fibres from a light mottled 

 feather, off the hen pheasant's wing. In addition 

 to this, the fly happened to have for its head, pro- 

 jecting forwards, two whisks of sable fur. But 



