92 ELEMENTS OF ANGLING. 



combinations of his flies. Two had better be of the 

 stouter class, with a big March brown at the end 

 and a big Greenwell as dropper. These will be for 

 the first effort, and a second dropper will not be 

 advisable. For the others the following combina- 

 tions will do : (i) March brown (small), hare's ear, 

 Greenwell ; (2) blue upright, red upright, hare's 

 ear; (3) Wickham, coachman, March brown; (4) 

 Greenwell. coch-y-bondhu, blue upright. Perhaps, 

 also, a fine cast might be made up with three black 

 spiders on it, for there are days when trout feed on 

 little black flies, and will look at nothing else. 



