nous i: FLY. HAMMOND'S ADOITKD. 



coloured silk ; the legs, a red cock's hackle, and wings of 

 the light shining part of a starling's feather. 



The Black Ant should be tied similarly, save that the 

 body should be composed of black ostrich and peacock 

 herl mixed, and tied in at the waist with black silk : legs 

 black cock's hackle, and wings of the darker portion of the 

 starling's feather. 



The House Fly. There is a fly very similar in appear- 

 ance to the house fly, but I do not think it is the same 

 being less neat and more ragged in its appearance than 

 the house fly, looking rather, if I may use the expression, 

 like a dissipated house fly out of luck which is found in 

 the fields, and a good deal by the river-side, and on the 

 water during the warm months. It may at times be used 

 with great advantage, when other flies fail ; and I have 

 had good sport with it. It is so similar to the house fly, 

 that one dressing will serve both. Hook No. 9, body fat, 

 and of two or three strands of a rusty dark bluish feather 

 from the heron's back, wound on as though it were herl. 

 Tied in on each side, at the tail, are two fine shreds of buff- 

 coloured silk ; these are brought up the sides and tied in 

 when the body is finished off, to represent the whitish 

 streaks along the sides of the natural fly. Legs, rusty- 

 black cock's hackle ; wings, the dark part of a starling's 

 wing these should be dressed as flatly as may be con- 

 venient. 



The house flies are more abundant, and kill better on 

 the water towards the end of the season, however, as they 

 are then getting weak and blind. 



Hammond's Adopted. A fly of the foetid brown kind, 

 but with lightish spots or markings on the wings, is often 

 to be seen sporting like the foetid brown, and even with it 

 on many rivers ; it is the brown skipjack of some localities. 

 I do not find it noticed much in any tackle-book, unless 

 it be the light pied dun of Theakstone. I should not dress 



