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time, when the water is clearing after a fresh, 

 tip this fly with gold tinsel, dress it on a No. 8 

 or 9 hook, and it must kill well. 



The dun-cut. Body, bear's hair mixed with 

 brown and yellow mohair ; wings, yellowish- 

 green feather of a landrail, to lie flat and be 

 longer than the body; legs, a turn of a small 

 ginger hackle. Hook, 8, 9, and 10. Mr. Elaine 

 says of this fly, " that in many cases it proves 

 very killing, and that it regularly appears in this 

 month, but at an uncertain period of it, and sel- 

 dom lasts longer than the middle of June. It 

 will take fish on gloomy days the whole day 

 through, but best of all in warm sultry evenings, 

 when its execution is often very great, particu- 

 larly amongst trout, being, according to our obser- 

 vations, less greedily sought by grayling." 



Little dark spinner (RONALDS). This is the 

 metamorphosis of the Turkey brown. It is a 

 most killing fly just at the beginning of dusk. 

 Body, mulberry-coloured floss silk, ribbed over 

 with purple silk thread ; wings, from a feather of 

 the starling's wing ; legs, a purple-stained hackle 

 which appears black when looked down upon, but 

 which shines with a dark tortoise-shell tint when 

 held up between the eye and the light. 



Shorn-fly, or case-wing ed-fly. Upper wings, 

 landrail's feather, to be dressed short and bending 

 over the body ; under wings, the light fibres from 



