THE JENNY SPINNER 153 



never heard of anyone having any particular 

 success with any artificial imitation of this fly, 

 doubtless by reason of the latter being always 

 so inadequate. 



Ronalds assigns it a life of some four or five 

 days, and thus imitates it : 



Body : White floss silk. 

 Head and root of tail : Brown silk. 

 Tail : Light-dun hackle. 



Wings and legs : Best imitated buzz, and with 

 the lightest dun hackle procurable. W. F. 



This dressing is as good as any. 



FRANCIS. 

 Body : A watery whitish floss silk, with a turn of 



brown at the head and the tail. 

 Wings and legs : A pale silvery blue hackle. 



W. F. 



HALFORD. 



Hackle : Badger cock. 



Body : Detached, of white horsehair, worked on 



an undyed bristle, with four or five turns of 



crimson tying-silk at both ends. 



Tails : Pale-cream colour. 



Hook oo or ooo. 



I do not like the use of the badger hackle for 

 this pattern. It fails to give the appearance of 

 lightness, so peculiar to the natural fly, and is, to 

 my mind, a trifle too yellow. 



