STREAMCRAFT 



Legs, brown hackle wound entire length of body; 

 Tail, gray mottled (mallard). 



FEMALE (OR LADY) BEAVERKILL: 

 Wings, same as above; 



Body, gray tipped with yellow ball to represent egg-sac; 

 Legs, brown hackle; Tail, gray mottled (mallard). 



BLACK ANT: 



Wings, slate (duck or pigeon) or black; 



Body, black silk with ball of black herl at head; 



Legs, black hackle. 



RED ANT (two patterns) : 

 Wings, gray; 



Body, front half red silk, posterior half brown herl; 

 Legs, red hackle. 



Or with 



Body, red with green (peacock) herl tip; 

 Legs, brown hackle. 



BLACK GNAT (HACKLE, SPIDER) : 



Wings, lead, black, or brown; Body, black ostrich; 



Legs, none except when tied on larger than number 10 

 hooks, when the pattern is called Black Hackle, and is 

 sometimes dressed palmer; dressed wingless and with 

 very long black hackle, it is called Black Spider. 



(A very taking tiny pattern of the Black Gnat is tied with 

 pike-scale wings laid flat on the hook.) 



BLUEBOTTLE (diversified) : 

 Wings, black or gray; 

 Body, dark blue chenille ribbed with black silk or gold 



tinsel, or of steel blue silk with white tip; 

 Legs, black or dark gray hackle. 



BROWN DRAKE (see March Brown) : 



Wings, golden yellow-brown; Body and Legs, same; 

 Tail, dark brown (long). 



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