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then you will find the browns come on, which you 

 must use, as the fish will not touch the grannams 

 as long as the brown flies continue. About five 

 o'clock in the evening you may use the grannams 

 again with success, the browns having then 

 totally disappeared for that day. The grannam 

 is a four-winged fly, and as it swims down the 

 water, its wings lie flat on the back. It has a 

 small bunch of eggs of a green colour at the tail- 

 end of the body, which gives it the name of the 

 green-tail fly. As soon as it alights on the 

 water, it drops its eggs. This fly is of short 

 duration, not lasting above a week, after which it 

 disappears for the season." It is dressed as fol- 

 lows : body, dark hare's ear fur, mixed with a 

 little blue fur ; at the tail a twist of a green harl 

 from the eye of a peacock's feather, or a lap or 

 two of green floss silk, or a bit of green wax ; 

 wings, from the wing-feather of a partridge or 

 hen pheasant ; legs, a yellow grizzle hackle. 

 Hook, No. 8 or 9. 



Mr. Ronalds' & way : Body, fur of hare's face 

 left rough and spun on brown silk. A little 

 green floss silk may be worked in at the tail to 

 represent the bunch of eggs there ; w T ings, feather 

 from that of the partridge, . and made very full; 

 legs, a pale ginger hen's hackle. Made buzz with 

 a feather from the back of a partridge's neck, 

 wound upon the above body. 



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