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days in July and August. I fancy it does not often get 

 on to the water, and therefore have never attempted imi- 

 tating it ; but knew one very good fisherman who spoke 

 very highly of it as a trout fly. 



The Jenny Spinner is the spinner of the iron blue. 

 All the imitations I have ever seen of this little fly, which 

 has a curiously transparent body, have been utter failures, 

 and I do not think it would repay one for the trouble, 

 even if you could make a tolerable imitation of it. 



GENERAL FLIES. 



These flies, together with all other general flies, are 

 useful, only in as far as that they bear a resemblance to 

 some kinds of water insects ; or that one general fly, 

 when the fish are not very fastidious, will pass muster for 

 a number of different flies ; they should chiefly be used 

 when few fly are out. 



46. The Red Palmer. Whatever this lure may stand 

 for in the fish's estimation, there is no doubt that they 

 will at times take it on all waters, even on rivers 

 throwing up little or no insect life, where the duns, and ; 

 spinners, &c., would never rise a fish. It is always worth 

 trying in very heavy water, and I have often killed fish 

 with it in water too thick for any other fly. It is one 



