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Hackle : A rusty black or grizzled blue dun. 

 Body : Bronze peacock herl. 

 Or- 



Wings : Small dark bustard. 



Hackle : As before. 



Body : A strand of bronzed turkey-feather. 



The hook used should be 2, 3, or 4 (long). 



This fly is sometimes called the ' orl fly ' why, 

 I don't know ; I have never been able to discover 

 the origin of the word. Theakstone calls it the 

 * light dun.' Ronalds advises the use of the 

 natural fly in preference to the artificial. Such 

 a plan may conduce to the filling of the basket. 

 Let those who like adopt it ! 



THE SEDGE FLIES (TRICHOPTERA). 



The reader may have observed, if he is not 

 already acquainted with the sedge fly, a some- 

 what foxy-looking, four-winged insect, which flaps 

 its way in laborious fashion over the surface of 

 the water in the dusk of the summer evenings ; 

 from time to time it settles on the reeds or rushes 

 which fringe the banks of the stream. This is 

 the sedge fly. It is one of those flies which 

 make their habitations of pieces of stick, etc., and 

 of which Mr. Wood gives so interesting an 

 account in the quotation I have given from his 



