114 ANGLING. 



silk body, with a turn of brown at the head and tail, and 

 a pale silvery blue hackle for legs and wings, is as good 

 as anything. 



The red and brown spinners are the changes undergone 

 by the blue and yellow duns. The red spinner should be 

 dressed with a deep brownish red, a sort of burnt sienna 

 floss silk for the body, ribbed with fine gold tinsel ; a red 

 hackle for legs, and two strands of the same for the tail, a 

 very light bit from a young starling's wing for the wings. 

 I have used pale blue hackle points for these, and very 

 successfully. The brown spinner is a somewhat similar 

 fly, dressed two or three shades paler. Some call it " the 

 sherry spinner," from its colour. There are two or three 

 shades of this fly, some with bluish or greenish olive bodies 

 of quill. It is best dressed hacklewise, with a hackle pale 

 straw colour or silvery dun, or even whiteish, with dark 

 streak down the centre. 



The March brown kills more fish than any other fly 

 where it is found. It comes thickly out on many rivers, 

 and at a period when the fish are hungry. The body is 

 made either of brown crewel or hare's fur, lighter or 

 darker, according as you wish to vary the fly from male 

 to female, ribbed with straw coloured silk or gold tinsel ; 

 legs, a partridge's back feather ; wing, the mottled feather 

 from a hen pheasant's wing, woodcock, or the wings of a 

 game hen ; tail, two strands from the same ; hooks, from 

 7 or 8 to 10 or 11. 



The alder, another very useful fly, comes in as the 

 March brown dies out. It is dressed with a mixture of 

 peacock harl, and black ostrich harl, for the body, with a 

 turn of mulberry silk at the tail ; a rusty black or dusty 

 iron blue hackle ; wing from peacock's back feather or a 

 brown hen's rump ; hook 8 to 10. 



