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with gold or yellow silk ; tail of two long fibres from a 

 coarse red cock's hackle ; legs a red cock's hackle, carried 

 down over all the body ; wings of the hen-pheasant's tail- 

 feather, or of the gray goose wing-feather. Hook No. 6. 



THE MARCH-BROWN, fig. 14. This fly is made of two 

 sizes; one on hook No. 7, the other on No. 11 or 12. 

 The body is of brown floss-silk ; tail of two long fibres of 

 the red cock's hackle ; legs of brown cock's hackle ; wings 

 of a woodcock's feather. 



THE RED SKINNER, fig. 15, is tied on hook No. 7. 

 Body of red mohair, sometimes ribbed with gold ; tail of 

 two fibres of a red cock's hackle ; legs of the same hackle ; 

 wings of a brown mallard's feather. 



THE WINGED-LARVA of Mr. Blacker, fig. 16, resem- 

 bles the green drake in all but the body, which is pro- 

 longed separately from the hook by means of a couple of 

 hog's bristles, which are tied in with it and the tail-hairs, 

 and extend about a quarter of an inch beyond the bend. 

 The silk or dubbing is then carried from the shank to the 

 bristles ; and thus the fly has the appearance of a long 

 body. The legs are often made with a dyed feather of the 

 mallard's back, used as a hackle. 



EXTRA TROUT-FLIES. Those given in the preceding 

 paragraphs will suffice for all common purposes ; but they 

 may be varied ad infinltum by the angler to suit particu- 

 lar localities. If, however, he makes himself perfect in 

 the manufacture and use of these, and has the stock 

 of materials necessary for fly-making, it will be at all 

 times easy for him to extend his list, either by imitating 

 the prevalent natural fly, or that which is successfully 



