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which will be found good ones till the end of 

 May. The Irish name for the dun drake, is 

 " Coughlan,">i« made thus: — The wings, grey- 

 partridge tail ; the body, light brown bear's fur, 

 with bright yellow mohair, hare's fur from the 

 face, mixed altogether, forked with two stripes 

 of a dark mallard's feather, and a partridge 

 hackle. No. 8 hook. In Ireland they consider 

 this the most useful fly they have in April and 

 May, as a stretcher, used with the little dun fox, 

 and black-red, (soldier fly). 



No. 12. The Stone Fly. — The body is 

 made of brown mohair ribbed with yellow silk, 

 a tuft or tag of yellow mohair or silk at the 

 tail, and a little yellow mohair worked in under 

 the shoulder, over which roll the hackle, which 

 should be of a brown-red colour ; the wings 

 are made of the hen pheasant tail mixed with 

 copper brown mallard, made full, and larger 

 than the body. No. 6 hook. If this fly is 

 made of good colours, as above described, 

 hardly any large trout, in humour of taking, 

 can well refuse it. An odd one of them may 

 be seen in March, when the weather is mild ; 

 but in April and May, when it becomes more 

 ♦ " Taylor's Angler." 



