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No. 14. Hook 2. 

 WINGS. From the tail of a Partridge. 

 BODY. Orange and yellow silk twisted, dubbed with fur 



from a fox's ear. 

 LEGS. From a Wren's tail. 



No. 15. Hook 2. 



WINGS. From the Hen Pheasant's wing. 

 BODY and LEGS. Same as in No. 14. 



The five dressings here given admit of little preference 

 as killers. The hackled fly though comparatively rarely 

 dressed will be found very useful on cold, rough days, and 

 the winged flies are indispensable on fair days through 

 March and April, and not infrequently into May. The 

 fpmale of the natural fly is a little lighter in the wing than 

 the male, and a gradual change in the same direction 

 appears to take place in the colour of all the flies as the 

 season advances. Nos. 1 2 and 1 5 will therefore be useful 

 later on, although if there is a heavy rise of the natural fly 

 you will do well to have both the male and female fly on. 

 Many anglers fish the March Brown, or a variation of it, 

 more or less, all the year round, lessening the size as the 

 months go on, and dressing it with a lighter feather, either 

 from the grey goose or the hen pheasant. I have met many 

 fishermen who believe that the fly which is often very 

 abundant about the end of July or the beginning of August 

 is in reality a second hatch of the March Brown. It is 

 rather less and lighter in colour than the earlier hatchings j 

 and like the latter changes to a red spinner. Jackson 

 treats the later fly as an independent specimen, which he 

 calls the August Brown, for which he gives a dressing 

 almost identical with those I have quoted. Ronalds calls 

 it the August Dun. No. n is a very excellent fly, and I" 

 have proved its killing properties not only on the Yorkshire 

 rivers, but on the English and Scottish lakes, and notably 

 on Loch Leven. 



