ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



appointing. If the fly- tier desires to make any 

 of the artificials with extended bodies, the drakes 

 which include the March browns should be so 

 constructed, as the tail-ends of these naturals 

 are cocked up most emphatically. The March- 

 or large-brown category includes the March 

 Brown, Turkey Brown, August Dun (drake), and 

 Great Red Spinner that is, these are varying 

 forms of the same insect (not of the same in- 

 dividual insect) as it appears at different 

 periods. A particularly suitable material for 

 making these bodies, because of its color, trans- 

 lucency, softness, and flexibility, is delicate 

 strips of crude rubber manipulated after the 

 method of the late H. G. McClelland, a lamented 

 contributor to the London Fishing Gazette, which 

 will be detailed later on. And strips of vulcanized 

 rubber cut from a very thin sheet and put upon 

 the stretch have been utilized for covering col- 

 ored bodies to impart a more natural appearance. 

 Wings. But including the fashioning of the 

 whole fly body, wings, legs, and tail there is 

 scarcely a beast or bird of the field, or bird of the 

 air or of the water, that does not pay tribute to 

 the fly- tier. The quaint old poet Gay has put 

 this prettily into verse: 



To furnish the little animal, provide 

 All the gay hues that wait on female pride; 

 Let nature guide thee sometimes golden wire 

 The shining bellies of the fly require; 

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