ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



Cochins. They are best collected early and late 

 in the year. Feathers from the cock are gen- 

 erally used, but some ginger and black ones 

 from hens. Other sources of supply are the 

 wren's tail, black plover toppings, the jungle- 

 cock, and various game birds from which come 

 honey duns, blue duns, stone duns, yellow duns, 

 and excellent red ones from the grouse. From 

 the partridge, speckled brown; from the snipe, 

 golden. The dotterel supplies light duns and 

 the starling, black. The darkest and glossiest 

 red-brown from gamecocks are called "dark 

 red game." The palest and most yellowish of 

 the foxy reds are called "ginger." "Dun" means 

 a dingy brown or mouse color. Of the combina- 

 tions, "badger" is one with a black or dark dun 

 center and a white or creamy edge. "Honey 

 duns" or "brassy duns" have a dark dun 

 center and a honey yellow edge. The "furnace" 

 has a black center and edge with dark red 

 between; in a "white furnace" the white re- 

 places the red, etc. A "grizzled" hackle is one 

 in which light and dark are evenly mixed. 



Emerson Hough expatiates on the killing 

 qualities of the bucktail-fly for trout and big 

 ones in high and discolored water. He says 

 it seems to work anywhere, and that in the 

 Arctic Circle, three thousand feet above the 

 country where he first saw it used, the con- 

 trivance kept the camp in trout and grayling 

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