TEOUT FLIES. 115 



The sedge, a famous fly through Hampshire and the 

 midland districts ; body stoutish and of buff or brown 

 crewel ; sandy red hackle from head to tail, ribbed over 

 the reverse way with fine gold tinsel ; under wing, a 

 little starling; upper wing, landrail or hen pheasant 

 Make the body slender, and of a browner hue, and do 

 away with the tinsel and the under wing, and you get the 

 sand fly. Make this again more creamy in the body, and 

 you obtain the cinnamon. 



The quill gnat. This is a very useful fly, and is found 

 on the water previous to and throughout the Mayfly 

 season and even later. The body is made of a strip of 

 the bluish quill of the starling, which forms a natural 

 ribbing ; legs, a red hackle ; wing, lightish starling ; the 

 tail being two whisks of silver dun hackle. Another 

 kind of quill gnat is dressed with a medium blue dun 

 hackle, and a slightly darker wing and tail. Hooks 

 10 to 12. 



The black gnat. The smallest possible hook, lapped 

 round with a few turns of short black ostrich harl for 

 body, two turns of small black hackle for legs, and a little 

 slip of light or very dark starling, for it varies, for wing, 

 form the best representation of it. There are two or three 

 black gnats, and unless you have the right one you will 

 not kill. 



The willow fly. This is a curious fly which may be 

 found on the water of different sizes at different times of 

 the year late and early. It is a flat winged fly, the wings 

 of which it has two pairs lying one over the other flat 

 down the back. The body may be made of starling quill ; 

 the hackle, freckled dun. The wings are exactly the 

 colour of an alder's, and the rump of a red hen, or a bit of 

 clear speckled hen pheasant might do. Hooks Nos. 10 



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