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No. 24. LIGHT WATCHET (Spinning Jenny; Pearl Drake). 



Hook O. 



WINGS. From the Jay. 



BODY. Straw-coloured silk. 



LEGS. Fibres from a Yellow Plover. 



This is not a good fly to imitate. It is the metamor- 

 phosis of the dark watchet or iron blue dun, and both are 

 often on the water together. Jackson calls it the little 

 white spinner. It is a very delicate transparent insect, and 

 most authorities are content to give a general instruction to 

 dress it from the lightest dun hackle you can get. Most 

 fly dressers make some attempt to imitate the variations of 

 colour in the extremities of the body of the natural insect, 

 but the figure on the plate will kill well enough when trout 

 are in the humour. Mr. Walbran remarks, in his " Notes " 

 to Theakston, that he has never found the artificial fly kill 

 well, and I know one fly-maker in the county who has 

 ceased to dress it, in something like despair at his inability 

 to produce an imitation of the natural fly to his satisfaction. 

 It should be fished on mild days and in the evening during 

 summer. 



No. 25. OLIVE BLOA. Hook i. 



WlNGS. From a Starling's quill. 

 BODY. Greenish yellow silk. 



LEGS, White hackle from a Hen's neck, stained to olive 

 in onions. 



No. 26. OLIVE BLOA. Hook O. 



WlNGS. Hackled with a feather from a Lapwing's back or 



rump. 



BODY. Yellow silk. 

 HEAD. Orange silk. 



