!>08 THE BROWN SIMXXKR. 



they suck up a good deal of water, and make the fly 

 lumpy and heavy. The legs should be made of a delicate 

 honey dun hen's hackle. This hackle has a dull, pale 

 smoky bluish centre and golden tips, which show more 

 plainly when held up to the light. It is rather a scarce 

 feather to obtain, and the owners of hens which produce 

 it in perfection are rather choice over them, and therefore 

 if the angler cannot get it, he may use the hackle of a 

 light buff Cochin China hen, which practically does almost 

 as well. The shades of the body of this fly vary a good 

 deal, often inclining to a pale green, gosling green as it is 

 termed, and often to a pale buff or lemon. It is well to 

 have bodies of different hues. To vary the shade, if the 

 body be at all dark use a pale blue dun hackle. The wing 

 should be taken from the wing of a young starling, being 

 a lighter colour and having a finer texture than that of an 

 old one. The tail is short and limp, and is best imitated 

 by leaving about half an inch of a couple of the untwisted 

 strands of the silk of which the body is composed, or the 

 angler may use two small strands of the buff Cochin hackle. 

 Hooks, Nos. 9 and 10, or smaller. This fly, which is also 

 indispensable to the angler, after a few days changes its 

 coat and becomes 



The Brmvn Spinner. This is another capital fly. It is 

 very similar to the red spinner, and may be dressed very 

 like it, save that the body should be made of not so red 

 but of lighter and browner silk, ribbed with fine gold 

 wire. The hackle should be of a lighter red, not such a 

 blood red ;is the red spinner, and the wing should also be 

 of a shade or two lighter hue. It will be found more 

 plentiful towards the afternoon and evening. The angler 

 will find his account in using the red spinner when the 

 blue dun has been on in the day, and the brown one when 

 the yellow dun has prevailed. There is also 



A Larger Yellow Dun. I call it a yellow dun because 



