122 FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 



Body : Of buff creamy-coloured fur, or crewel, fur is 

 the best, if of the right colour. 



A very light delicate red hackle, long in fibre, two 

 turns of this should be taken close to the head. 



Wings : A full slip of any buff, creamy-coloured 

 feather. 



Tail : Two (hick strands of same feather as the wing. 



26. The Blue Bottle is sometimes a good fly to try in 

 the evenings of July and August. It should always be 

 used as a stretcher fly, and in clear water only. Fish 

 with it close under the bank, it will not kill in the streams. 



Hooks, Nos. 9 and 10. 



Body : Dark blue floss silk, ribbed evenly and dis- 

 tinctly with a fibre of black ostrich herl. 



A black hackle put on sparely and long in the fibre. 

 Wing : A slip of any dark grey feather. 



27. The large Red Spinner is the spinner of the 

 March brown, and is sometimes a good fly late in the 

 evening, more especially on very large rivers. It is a good 

 white trout fly. 



Hooks, Nos. 5 and 6. 



Body: Crimson Avorsted tightly wrapped on, and 

 ribbed distinctly with gold tinsel ; but the best body is 

 made of philozel of a dark crimson colour. 



