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ting fly to look at ; the trout as well as the angler find 

 it so. Its construction is of the simplest, but its 

 seductive powers are of the greatest. Natural hackles 

 of the correct shade are somewhat difficult to obtain, 

 but a dyed feather will serve equally well, though 

 on that point it would be very difficult to convince a 

 Tweed fisher. 



This fly resembles a number of small spinners 

 which are on the river in June and July, and it is 

 also a particularly good copy of the female imago 

 of the Pale Watery Dun, the appearance of which 

 on loch and reservoir formerly indicated to many 

 anglers that all expectation of sport had departed. 

 With this beautiful pattern in his possession no one 

 under such circumstances need give way to despair ; 

 but instead a great feeling of hopefulness should 

 steal over him, because there is then presented the 

 possibility of an hour of intensely interesting sport 

 among eager cruising trout, and a probability of 

 great reward to silent, careful manipulation of 

 delicate tackle. 



It is almost impossible for anyone to have a stock 

 of flies sufficient to enable him invariably to deal 

 successfully with rising trout ; but, as we have already 

 pointed out, a fly which will assuredly bring a few 

 fish to the creel, no matter what unfamiliar species 

 of dun or spinner arrives, may be made in a minute 

 or two from a hackle and an inch or two of silk, 

 carefully chosen to suggest the general characteristics 

 of the type occasioning the rise. 



Once during a yellow spate on Clyde we were 

 aroused from weary inaction by the startling 

 announcement that the trout of Newton Flat were 

 rising madly. The fly that was producing this 



