58 ANGLING FOR GAME FISH. 



Snipe and Purple, Snipe Bloa, Partridge and Orange, Bracken 

 Clock, and Stone Midge. To the above I would add Green- 

 well's Glory,* a splendid killer. 



In Devonsliire, hackled flies are mostly used, but they are 

 usually larger than the flies of Yorkshire, and less sad- 

 coloured. The North Devonshire anglers are great believers 

 in a little silver twist or tinsel, and plenty of hackle. In South 

 Devon the Blue Upright is the favourite fly. It kills best in 

 the spring and autumn. It is really a hackled imitation of 

 the Blue Dun, though I do not for a moment suppose the 

 trout take it for that fly.f Other standard flies are a sort of 

 March Brown (brown quill body and partridge hackle). Brown 

 Palmer (rendered more killing by a small, rich red tail of 

 Indian crow), and Half Stone J — these more particularly in 

 the spring. For summer : Cowdung, Silver Twist, March 

 Brown, Hare's Flax {i.e., Hare's Ear, another form of the 

 Blue Upright or Blue Dun), Red Upright (see Detached 

 Badger, page 31), and Coch-y-bondu when the water is high. 

 The Coachman § is the fly for evening use. After dark, it 

 can be fished rather large. Dressed 

 with a starling wing, it is a splendid 

 brook-fly in the daytime. On the Exe 

 and Teign, and in North Devon gene- 

 rally, the flies used are brighter and 

 have more tinsel than the Dartmoor 

 FIG. 41. A DEVONSHIRE ^^^^' ^hc fly shown in Fig. 41 was tied 

 * LY. "by an old moorman, and kills well when 



the water is big. The body and hackles 

 are a smoky-blue, and the wings a rusty bluish-brown. 



Mr. Cutliffe, in "Trout Fishing in Rapid Streams," gives 

 a list of rather large and very bright flies of his own inven- 



* Body, dark olive silk, thickly ribbed with fine gold wire. Legs, small coch-y 

 bondu hackle. Wings, woodcock-wing. 



t It is dressed in a variety of ways ; one of the best is : Body, dark quill ; smoky- 

 blue hackle, and whisk to match hackle. 



t Hackle, honey-dun cock. Body— lower half, primrose floss silk ; upper half of 

 pale mole fur. 



§ Wings, white feather, as from swan. Hackle, red cock. Body, copper, 

 coloured peacock harL 



