116 ANGLING. 



and 11. The little needle brown may be dressed on the 

 same lines, but smaller. 



The whirling dun, a useful late August and September 

 fly. Body, a couple of strands of blue heron hackle, or 

 back feather warped like harl ; buff silk ribbing, brown 

 red hackle, darkish starling wing. Hooks Nos. 10 and 11. 



The gnm drake. This very noted fly is dressed in many 

 different ways. It varies in shade and colour a good deal 

 on various rivers; on some the wings are the palest 

 yellowish green, or greenish yellow, and they vary from 

 this down to a dark bluish olive, the legs, bodies, and tails, 

 even, varying equally. It is difficult, therefore, to give 

 any particular dressing that will suit more than a few 

 rivers of a certainty. I shall give the fly which I use the 

 most of, and I shall leave the angler or dresser to vary it 

 as much as he chooses. First whip on the tail three 

 strands of a cock pheasant's tail feather, and then tie in 

 by the tip on the back of the fly an olive or a sandy red 

 hackle, half way down the hook, and leave it hanging. 

 The colour of the green drake's body is in nothing so well 

 represented as in a slip of straw or a bit of maize leaf, 

 such as is used by Spaniards for cigarettes. I therefore 

 make most of my May fly bodies of this, by cutting off a 

 slip just big enough to roll on the hook for the body ; as 

 the tail end is pointed, a wedge or two should be cut out 

 of the lower end to enable it to be drawn to a point, which 

 is done by two or three laps of burnt sienna-coloured silk, 

 which is then touched with varnish to secure it, and give 

 it the colour which is seen at the tail of the natural fly in 

 a splotch, of brown. The straw, being secured at the tail 

 end, and the edges brought neatly together up the back, 

 should then be bound on firmly by ribs of the brown silk, 

 carefully avoiding the olive hackle which is left hanging ; 



