112 HOW TO DRESS THE OAK-FLY. 



partridge or hen pheasant. To be tipped with 

 pale gold twist. Hook, 8, 9, and 10. 



Mr. Ronalds^ way : Body, orange floss silk, 

 tied with ash-coloured silk thread, which may be 

 shown at the tail and shoulders : wings from the 

 wing-feather of a woodcock ; legs, a furnace hackle 

 (i. e. a red cock's hackle, with a black line up the 

 middle, and tinged with black also at the ex- 

 tremities of the fibres). This should be warped 

 all down the body, and the fibres snipped off 

 again nearly up to where the wings are set on, 

 leaving a sufficient quantity uncut for the legs. 



Mr. Elaine's method: Wings, partridge's mot- 

 tled wing-feather, dressed of a full size, and to lie 

 flat ; body, first wrap a little dun fur, next some 

 dark grizzle, and form the tail part of a yellowish 

 dun ; make a large head of the brown fur of the 

 hare ; legs, represented by the body-dubbing 

 picked out. 



Mr. BainbridgJs plan : The wings are short 

 in proportion to the body, and lie flat on the back. 

 The colours of this fly being various and un- 

 equally mixed make the imitation difficult. The 

 head is to be made of the fur from the hare's ear; 

 body, under the wings, dun fur; in the middle 

 orange and yellow, and towards the tail a brownish 

 dun ; the wings from the feather of a yellowish 

 brown hen ; or it may be made with a bittern's 

 hackle only, without wings. It is an excellent 



