220 THE PALE EVENING DUN AND L1TTLK YKI.LOW. 



will be therefore the best medium sizes. Body, large and 

 full, of a coppery peacock herl ; legs, a dark grizzled blur 

 dun or rusty black cock's hackle ; wings, from the brown 

 speckled feather from the rump of a brown game hen. 

 The natural insect may be used in daping. From the 

 middle of May till the end of June it will be found, par- 

 ticularly towards evening, a very useful fly ; and when it 

 first makes its appearance few flies are in more request, 

 and dace and chub, as well as trout, take it very freely. 

 It was with this fly I achieved the day's sport (mentioned 

 at p. 165) on the Kennet, using one of Ogden's patterns, 

 which are the best I know of. 



The Pale Evening Dun (see Plate VII. fig. 8, p. 185) is 

 a rather light yellow dun, with a prevailing pale olive 

 tinge given by a dip in onion dye. The spinner of this fly 

 is of a very pale watery brown, legs light buff, and the 

 wing white and transparent, and neat and rounded in 

 shape. It comes on thickly on some streams at dusk. On 

 the Teme, for example, I have seen it heavily on. As it 

 comes on at dusk it is difficult to see this fly on the surface, 

 so delicate and imperceptible is it ; and yet, to the angler's 

 annoyance, the trout will be rising heavily without his 

 being able to discover at what. There are many night 

 flies which rarely show at all by day, both amongst the 

 Ephemera* and the Phryganidae, and this is one of them. 

 It is dressed thus : body, a dirty yellowish buff, ribbed 

 with light lemon silk, hackle light blue dun. Tail, two 

 whisks of the same ; wings, light starling dipped in onion 

 dye. Hook, No. 10 or II. 



The Little Yellow May Fly. This miniature May fly, 

 which usually precedes the real May fly about a week or 

 ten days, changes in a few days into a spinner of a pale 

 golden hue. It should be dressed on a No. 8 or 9 hook ; 

 the body of buff-coloured crewel, ribbed with bright yellow 

 silk ; tail, two strands of buff hackle ; wings, similar to 





