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THEAKSTONE. 



Body : Fine coffee-brown silk for the brown, and 



white for the pearl parts. 

 Wings and legs : A glassy silvery cock's hackle. 



The jenny spinner is a fly I never use myself. 

 I have given it up as hopeless. 



THE JULY DUN. 



The dressing as for the iron blue, but a trifle 

 larger and lighter, will serve for this fly. It 

 changes to a dark claret - coloured spinner. 

 Ronalds gives the dressing of it as follows : 



Body : Mole's fur and pale-yellow mohair, mixed 



and spun upon yellow silk. 



Tails : Two or three whisks of a dark-dun hackle. 

 Wings : Dark starling wing-feather stained in 



strong onion dye, or from a wing- feather from 



the merlin hawk. 

 Legs : A dark-dun hackle. 



To make it buzz, use a lighter-coloured hackle. 

 This style of dressing will be found preferable for 

 wet-fly fishing. 



THE AUGUST DUN. 



I have already referred to this fly when writing 

 of the March brown. It is very similar to the 

 latter, the only differences being that it is, perhaps, 

 a trifle smaller, and the ribs somewhat yellower 

 in colour. In the spinner stage it is rather of 



