DERBYSHIRE ANGLERS' DRESSING 161 

 LIGHT MACKEREL. 



Body : Thin, and of bright-brown silk, ribbed 



with fine gold twist. 



Tail : Two whisks of a red cock's hackle. 

 Wings : Upright, from a mottled gray feather of 



the mallard, stained to match the colour of the 



natural wings. 

 Legs : Red cock's hackle. 



Hook 2 (grayling). 



He (Ronalds) states that the Derbyshire anglers 

 thus dress it : 



Wings : Upright, from the under-covert feather 



of a young grouse. 

 Body : Russia-leather-coloured silk, ribbed with 



the finest yellow silk. 

 Tail : Two dun fibres. 



After a frosty morning they use the following 

 pattern, which they call the ' frost fly ' : 



Wings : Starling feather, onion-dyed. 



Body : Claret silk. 



Legs : A dead furnace hackle. 



Francis thus dresses the ordinary red spinner : 



Body : Red-brown quill, ringed with fine gold 



wire. 



Legs : Red hackle. 

 Tail : Three fibres of red hackle. 

 Wings : Golden-tinged blue dun hackle points. 



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