PRACTICAL FLY-FISHER. 31 



NO. 61. SMALL OLIVE BLOA. 



Wings. Starling's quill feather stained in onion 

 dye. 



Body. Yellow silk ; cobbler's wax. 

 Legs. Olive-stained hackle. 

 Tail. Two strands of the same. 



This fly is probably the same as No. 2, but is much smaller. It 

 seems to live all Winter, and appears early in Spring, as Nos. 1 and 2. 



NO. 62. DAKK GREY MIDGE. 



Wings. Dark grey feather of Partridge. 

 Body. Brown, or olive silk. 

 Legs. Grey Partridge, or grizzled hackle. 



This fly, with Nos. 61, 5, and 6, are the last flies out. In the 

 year 1851, on the 16th and 17th of December, with these four flies, I 

 killed eleven large Graylings, besides smaller ones and Smelts : the 

 river at the time being very low and clear, the weather mild, inclined 

 to frost. 



