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was there a better little fly than this thrown on 

 the water, it will kill fish any day in the year. 

 Put on the little black hackle, with peacock 

 harl body with it as a drop fly ; and when the 

 dun fox is used as a drop fly, put on the March 

 brown as a stretcher. There may be seen 

 three shades of this fly on the water at the 

 same time occasionally; the other two shades 

 are the ash and blue fox, — the first is a very 

 light dun colour of the fox cub's neck or face, 

 the other is of a darker blue shade ; they are 

 great favorites with the trout, artificially; in 

 mild weather throughout the summer, a small 

 wren and grouse hackle may be used with them, 

 the bodies made very thin and taper, and rather 

 full at the shoulder — the wren with orange mo- 

 hair body, and the grouse with golden yellow 

 floss silk body. 



No. 11. The Dun Drake. — The body is 

 made of golden olive mohair, mixed with hare's 

 ear fur, the light and dark, and forked with two 

 short fibres of brown mallard. The wings are 

 made of land-rail wing, and a little brown mal- 

 lard, mixed nicely together. Hook, No. 9. 

 There is a dark red, and a dark dun fly on the 

 ^ water at the same time as the dun-dralce, all of 



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