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season under different names, and which are invaluable to 

 the angler. 



The olive dun is another very useful fly used a good 

 deal through the season. The body should be dressed of 

 a dark olive silk, or quill more or less stained olive yellow, 

 with a turn of gold tinsel at the tail end some rib it 

 with yellow silk, or even fine gold wire the hackle olive, 

 with two strands of the same for the tail ; the wings 

 of starling, darker or lighter. This fly varies considerably. 

 Some years you may stain the wings lightly with onion 

 dye, and both legs and body are more or less yellow. 

 Hooks 9, 10, and 11. 



The hare's ear, one of the earliest and best flies used. 

 It comes on in March, and may be used at intervals 

 throughout the season. The body and legs are of hare's 

 ear fur, darker or lighter, with starling wing, also darker 

 or lighter. Some rib it with fine gold tinsel. 



The Hue dun is best dressed as the blue quill described 

 at page 118. 



The yellow dun runs so closely into the yellower kinds of 

 olive that there is little or no difference. It should have 

 a yellow silk body, not too dark, pale yellow olive hackle 

 and light starling wing. 



Little iron blue a dark slate quill body, a dark blue 

 feather from the cormorant's wing, the tomtit's tail, or the 

 moorhen's breast, for a wing, hackle a shade or two lighter 

 than the body, or light grey even to straw colour, for it 

 varies a good deal, with a couple of short strands for the 

 tail. Later editions of this fly come out as the season goes 

 on, but they are mostly lighter in colour, and with a fine 

 yellow silk ribbing. It changes to the 



Jenny Spinner, a fly which fish take voraciously at 

 times, but which is hard to imitate ; a watery whitish floss 



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