Mr. Halford's List of Flies 



dry-fly fishing. Mr. Halford in his 

 latest work, "The Modern Develop- 

 ment of the Dry-Fly," published in 

 1911, reduced his number of patterns 

 to thirty-three, as follows: Male and 

 female patterns each of the green May- 

 fly, brown May-fly, spent gnat, olive 

 dun, dark olive dun, olive spinner, 

 pale watery dun, pale watery spin- 

 ner, iron-blue dun, iron-blue spin- 

 ner, blue-winged olive, sherry spinner, 

 black gnat, Welshman's button, and 

 the olive (red) spinner (female), brown 

 ant, small dark sedge, medium sedge, 

 and cinnamon sedge. 



Mr. G. A. B. Dewar, in "The Book 

 of the Dry-Fly," 1896 edition, says: 

 "The tendency of dry-fly fishing is to- 

 ward restricting the number of flies 

 and patterns, therefore simplifying the 

 most complex and confusing branch of 

 angling. . . . The principle of dry-fly 



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