30 1 DESCRIPTION OF FLIES. 



when it becomes of an orange colour I think it of little use 

 being made, for then there are many flies of an orange co- 

 lour which we use that the fish like much better. 



MARCH BROWN 



Comes out the middle of March and continues to the end 

 of April ; its body is made u ith pale orange silk ribbed 

 with the strand of a pheasant's tail feather, with a brown 

 partridge hackle under the wings ; wings, from the spotted 

 tail-feather of a partridge hook No. 2. This fly may be 

 used in May by making the wings of a feather from 

 under the woodcock's wing. 



STONE FLY 



Comes on the middle of April, and continues to the end of 

 May. The body is made with yellow silk, ribbed with a 

 strand from a fpeacock's tail-feather; wings, a woodcock's 

 wing-feather, and a partridge hackle under the wing hook 

 No. 3. 



LITTLE STONE GNAT. 



This fly comes on the beginning of May, and will kill very 

 well in cold showery days to the end of July. The body 

 is made with pale lead-coloured silk ; wings, feather from 

 a longwing hook No. 1. 



SMALL GREEN ALDER FLY. 



This fly comes on the latter end of May and continues to 

 the middle of August ; it is a neat little fly, and is taken 

 pretty well during and after a warm shower of rain, espe- 



