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This fly should be used on warm still days. It is often 

 a good evening fly, but it will not kill on some rivers as 

 well as others. 



Tie a slip of grey speckled feather over this fly as a 

 wing, and you have a good lake fly. 



57. General Fly, No. 3. 



Hooks, Nos. 9 and 10, sometimes No. 8 for white trout. 



Tip : Two or three turns of either gold or silver tinsel. 



For the body : 1st, wrap about three quarters of the 

 hook very tightly with dull silk of any of the following 

 colours : Claret, brown, reddish brown, orange, or olive. 

 2nd, finish off the body towards the shoulder with some 

 turns of bronze peacock's herl, made fat. 



For the hackle : any speckled black and white, or 

 grizzled, or brownish red, or black feathers, long in fibres 

 and wound on very neatly close to the head. The 

 hackles ought to be rather longer than the hook, and of 

 course the body silk and hackle ought to somewhat 

 assimilate as to color. 



For the appearance of this fly when tied, see a cut in 

 the chapter on tackle. 



Flies, something like these, are very much used in 

 Scotland, and the North of England. I always carry 

 some of them in my book, as they may be tried at any 



