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The above pattern will also be found useful 

 in serving to represent some of the smaller sedge 

 flies. 



THE COCH-Y-BONDDHU. 



A Welshman with a crack-jaw name, also 

 known as the Marlow buzz, shorn fly, hazel fly, 

 bracken clock, Welshman's button, etc. 



Ronalds states that this fly is on the water 

 from the beginning to the middle of June only. 

 All the same, it is a fly very generally used, and 

 most universally believed in as being of inestimable 

 value, from the beginning to the end of the season, 

 at all times of. the day and on all rivers. It 

 certainly forms one of the standard patterns in 

 every local list. As far as my own experiences 

 extend, I do not share the general opinion regard- 

 ing the super-excellent qualities of this fly; indeed, 

 I may go further, and say that I consider it to be 

 very much overrated. I wonder how many of 

 my readers can say that they have ever seen this 

 fly on the water at any time. That it is to be 

 so found I most firmly believe, and every writer 

 on matters piscatorial makes mention of it ; perhaps 

 I do it scant justice. It will,- I am well aware, 

 kill fish. I have killed scores of fish, of sorts, 

 with it ; but this has been more frequently in 

 those districts where the latter run small, and are 

 ready to take anything when they are on the 

 feed. It is a land-bred insect, one of the beetle 



