11-J ANGLING. 



not deal with particular rivers here ; aiid for any extension 

 in that direction the angler must again consult the " Book 

 on Angling." As to the dressing of the various flies named > 

 the duns come first, and here hooks from 11 or 12 up to 

 8 or 9 will be used. I need hardly counsel the use of fine 

 gut for the smaller flies, as if the angler does not use it 

 he will have few fish to show. On some rivers they use 

 not only flies but collars or casting lines of single horse- 

 hair ; and they are all very well in moderate weather, but 

 do not do in a wind, nor where the fish run over half a 

 pound or so. The duns are the grand stand-by of the 

 fisherman. These are of all colours, from a dark slatey 

 blue to the palest possible ash, and from a deep yellow to 

 the faintest lemon almost white, apple green, olive, and 

 dark iron blue. 



, The blue dun should have a slate blue quill body, 

 legs of a dun freckled cock's hackle; some use a dark 

 honey dun hackle with yellowish tips and a smoky blue 

 centre, with two strands of the same for the tail 

 wings from the starling's wing, more or less dark. By 

 lightening the shades of all these feathers and the body 

 you may carry the fly on to the representation of other 

 duns which come in later on in the season. 



The yellow dun. The same process is followed here. 

 Taking a yellow silk body and medium honey dun hackle 

 with moderate starling wing, you get them lighter and 

 lighter till you get the body the faintest lemon or straw 

 colour, the hackle the lightest honey dun, and the wings 

 of the pale blue feather of the sea-swallow or roseate tern, 

 which is Mr. Aldam's dressing for one of the best summer 

 flies you can put on, and hitherto almost impossible to 

 imitate. The above two series will give some seven or 

 eight different shades of duns which come on daring the 



