THE REEL, LINE AND FLIES 51 



imitation of most of the natural flies, any one 

 of which may be temporarily abundant on the 

 water, and upon which there is reason to be- 

 lieve the fish are feeding. 



The list is as follows: Coachman, Cahill, 

 gold-ribbed hare's ear, Wickham's fancy, brown 

 sedge, silver sedge, iron blue dun, whirling 

 blue dun, and olive dun. These should be 

 dressed upon hooks, numbers twelve and ten. 

 It is seldom necessary to use smaller than a 

 number twelve dry-fly, although, of course, oc- 

 casionally only the very smallest flies are ef- 

 fective. To the flies named should be added 

 the green May female, brown May female, 

 and spent gnat female, of the new series of 

 floating flies developed by Mr. F. M. Halford. 



Of the above the coachman, Wickham's 

 fancy, gold-ribbed hare's ear and Cahill are 

 frankly " fancy " flies, not intended to repre- 

 sent any particular natural fly. The Wick- 

 ham's fancy, coachman and gold-ribbed hare's 

 ear are wonderfully successful patterns, as a 

 rule, throughout the entire season, and under 

 a great variety of angling conditions. The Ca- 

 hill is a fly of very delicate coloration and 

 dressing and is particularly useful over very 

 low and clear water. The duns, olive, whirl- 

 ing blue and iron blue are dressed in imitation 



