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numbers on sultry days with mild showers of 

 rain. It may be varied to advantage with blue 

 silk body. 



No. 15. The Little Beown Midge. — The 

 body is made of brown mohair with a shade of 

 orange mohair at the shoulder, two turns of a 

 small brown-red hackle for legs ; the wings are 

 made of brown mallard and a little strip of 

 land-rail mixed. No. 13 hook, snick bend. 



There appears to be a variety of small flies 

 on the water with the above fly about the 

 middle of the day, dark browns, pea-greens, 

 and dun flies, all water insects, which the trout 

 take very freely. 



No. 16. The Little Ikon Blue. — The 

 body is made of a little light coloured water- 

 rat's fur mixed with a few hairs of yellow, an 

 iron blue coloured dun hackle for legs, and the 

 wings from a blue dun feather to be found 

 underneath the wing of a dun hen, or starling 

 wing feather, tail it with a dun hackle, two 

 fibres. No. 10 hook. It sails upright on its 

 legs on the water, with both tail and wings 

 cocked up, so that it would suit best as a bob 

 fly. It will be found a useful fly throughout 

 the season, varied a little in shade according to 



