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find in old cob walls, and rib with gold twist. 

 This is an excellent fly on the broader streams, 

 and may be used almost at any time of the year, 

 particularly when the water is rather high. 

 Obtaining some light-red bullock's hair (you 

 may find it in wrens' nests), rib this with straw 

 silk for a body, and put on a hackle of a darkish 

 blue, very rusty colour. Take some of the last- 

 named bullock's hair and mix with it nearly an 

 equal quantity of the tips of the far from the 

 back of a light squirrel, use this for a body, and 

 then get a rusty blue hackle of the exact shade to 

 match it. This fly may be used all the year round, 

 and will, on the broad streams, seldom fail. The 

 reddest part of a squirrel's fur alone makes an 

 excellent body with a lightish rusty spangled 

 hackle, or we may use a blood- red, or a rusty-red 

 hackle to this body ; each will form a separate 

 fly, and by the addition of any fur to match any 

 peculiar tint or shade which predominates either 

 in the rusty-blue, to match which, a little of the 

 back of the squirrel will answer; or in the blood- 

 red, for which cows' hair is appropriate ; or in 

 the rusty-red, for which water-rat is best : thus 

 we have a series of different flies, approaching 

 very nearly, 'tis true, the blues, remembering that 

 there should be no marked distinctions between 

 the reds, browns, and blues, but inasmuch as we 

 have rusty or reddish-blue hackles, so should we 

 have reddish-blue bodies, and good killers they 

 will be found too ; and so we have reddish-brown 

 and rusty, or brownish-red feathers, and therefore 

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