PRACTICAL FLY FISHING 



thrown out by a miller. Old anglers are not 

 generally much pleased to see it ; for the 

 number and liveliness of the natural flies render 

 their chance small, and also enable the fish so 

 to glut themselves, as to require little more 

 insect food that day. It is like many other 

 insects, very variable in its appearance. In 

 some years scarcely any are seen. It is a flat 

 fly with four wings, and flutters very much upon 

 the water, perhaps, from an instinct of the 

 female to deposit her eggs, which hang in a 

 large green bunch at the end of her body ; and 

 from which, doubtless the name of the fly 

 originated. Hook No. 2 ; wing or hackle from 

 a feather which grows on the bone underneath 

 the Woodcock's wing, and is of a lead colour, 

 barred with white ; silk, of a grass or ivy-green 

 colour. About half the body should be made 

 with fur from a hare's face, leaving the re- 

 mainder of it bare to show the green silk. 



THE SPRING DUN, 



The Middle Dun, the Dun Cut, the Yellow 

 Dun, the Dotterel Dun, the Honey Dun, the 

 Brown Dun. These names, and many more, 

 are, in various parts of the country, applied to 

 an ephemera, which appears in most, if not all, 

 of the Trout waters of these kingdoms, through- 

 out the whole season, although in greater num- 

 bers during spring and autumn than at other 

 times. It is also rather larger at those periods 

 than in the summer months. 

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