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larvae, the maggot, is a well known natural bait. 



They may be imitated with threads of light and dark 

 blue shining silk or Alpaca wool, wound on the arm- 

 ing, for body, shoulders, and head; fastened at the 

 head with orange or yellow silk ; hackled with a cock 

 pheasant's purple neck feather, for wings and legs. 



The fly from the clapbait is exactly of the same 

 shape as the blue bottle, but larger, and near the same 

 color, except the wings, which are orange at the shoul- 

 ders, and the cheeks brilliantly gilded. 



22ND. GRANNAM (or greentail). Full length, 

 about half an inch; length, a quarter and one-six- 

 teenth, which appears longer when the female has her 

 cluster of green eggs about the end. Wings, three- 

 eights and one-sixteenth ; top ones downy, of a light 

 rusty brown tinge and transparency, with faint freckles 

 of darker shade. Head, shoulders, body, legs, and 

 feelers , coppery brown with a blue tinge on the back 

 and belly ; eyes, dark. Commence hatching last month 

 and continues into May. She is one of the cod bait 

 or light colored tribe of duns, and shews herself more 

 in daylight than some others of her class ; hatching in 

 the forenoons, and sporting in small groups over the 

 waters in the afternoon and towards evening. Several 

 species of the duns, the dotterell, black dun, etcetera, 

 come out and sport over the waters from five to near 

 sunset, when other species make their appearance. 



Winged with slips from a feather out of a partridge 

 or hen pheasant's wing; body, coppery silk, tinged 

 with water-rat's blue fur ; with a few fibres of mohair 

 to imitate the legs ; or winged and legged with a land- 



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