82 FLY-FISHING AND FLY-MAKING. 



GKEEN DKAKE OR MAY FLY. Body. Wheaten 

 strand ribbed with red-brown silk. 

 Legs. Brown hackle. 



Tail. Three strands from pheasant's tippet feather. 

 Wings. Breast feather of mallard. 

 Another difficult but very close imitation is made by 



Fig. 46. 



substituting a gut body for the straw, an idea of which 

 may be gathered from Figure 46. 



It is thus made : Take a length of gut, dyed yellow, 

 and soak it till quite soft. Now, cut several pieces of 

 stoutish gut into lengths of an inch or less, burn one end 

 of them in a flame to imitate the real insect ; these ends 

 are placed at the end of body the whisk or tail consists 

 of three rabbit's v/hiskers. Lay all the pieces of gut to- 

 gether and the whisks in their place and bind round from 

 the extremity with the strand of yellow gut. When you 

 arrive at the center or thereabouts of the insect take your 



