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FLIES FOR JUNE. 



No. 20. — The Great Red Spinner. — The 

 body is made of red mohair, ribbed with fine 

 gold wire, and a red cock hackle for legs ; the 

 wings are made of brown and grey mallard, 

 the grey underneath ; two fibres of stiff cock's 

 saddle hackle for tail, No. 6 or 7 hook. The 

 Small Red Spinner is made as the above, but 

 instead of mallard use starling wings. It is an 

 excellent fly for a dark evening in June and 

 July, with the furnace hackle. 



No. 21. — The Alder Fly. — The body is 

 made of brown coloured peacock harl, a black- 

 red cock hackle for legs, the wings are made of 

 hen pheasant tail feathers, hook No 6. There 

 is another way or two of making this fly 

 which cannot be beaten, they are mostly used 

 in Ireland, and are known to be killers in 

 England and Scotland. The body is made of 

 bronze brown mohair, a very small brown 

 grouse hackle round the head, and the wings 

 from a brown spotted hen's wing, No. 8 hook. 

 The other is made with grey and red partridge 



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