SEPTEMBER THE WHIRLING DUN. 237 



about on bridges and such places. It should be dressed like 

 the sand fly on a No. 6 hook. For lake-fishing it will be 

 found excellent. The wings should be large and full, the 

 tips of two partridge tail feathers or any whole small 

 feather of the same colour being used. The late blue and 

 yellow duns with their spinners, mentioned in the last 

 month, are still found in abundance, and will form the 

 principal attractions for the fish. 



The Cow-dung Fly (p. 201 ), dressed small, also kills well. 



The Needle Brown (p. 202) is now very plentiful, and 

 on many rivers is a first-rate favourite. 



Very diminutive and pale yellow and blue duns, almost 

 impossible to imitate from their smallness and delicacy, 

 are greatly favoured by the fish. 



The Large Yellcnv Dun (p. 208, 209) may also be found 

 in small numbers. 



The angler will have to rely upon many of the flies 

 previously noted for August. The only new ones that are 

 indispensable are the August dun, the cinnamon, and, 

 where it is found, the needle brown. 



SEPTEMBER. There are not many new flies this month, 

 though there are a great abundance and variety at times 

 on the water. 



The Whirling Dun is a very noted fly, and I have found 

 it kill well in the evening. As the way in which I have 

 seen it dressed in Hampshire, where I have chiefly used 

 it, differs from both Ronalds and ' Ephemera,' and they 

 differ somewhat from each other, I shall give the three 

 dressings. Eonalds : squirrel's red-brown fur mixed with 

 yellow mohair, and tied with yellow silk well waxed ; tail, 

 two strands of ginger hackle ; wings, darkish starling ; 

 legs, ginger hackle. 'Ephemera' substitutes water-nit 

 fur for the body, and dun hackle for the tail and legs. In 

 Hampshire, the body is made of the dirty-blue feather of 

 the heron's hackle or wing used as a herl, or some other 



