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bodies, ringed with either black and white, black and 

 yellow, brown and yellow, or orange spiral stripes, 

 and having large, reticulated, transparent wings, 

 with dark heads, and darkish tails. Such are the 

 March brown, the oak-fly, the hare's-ear-and- 

 yellow, the wasp-fly, and a few others. If these 

 flies are tied very large they will kill salmon, the 

 largest species of trout, and the largest chub. 

 Tied on 9 and 10 hooks they are excellent general 

 brook-flies for trout and grayling. The wasp- 

 fly is dressed thus : body, light orange mohair, 

 dubbed in very thin ribs, and alternated with 

 black ostrich harl, neatly and finely. Form the 

 head with the orange dubbing. Legs, two turns 

 of a light brown red hackle. Hook, No. 7, 8, 

 and 9, and make the wings of a partridge-hackle, 

 or mottled mallard's feather. Dress it large, and 

 the fly will kill well in the Thames. 



There are evening and night flies which come 

 into use towards the latter end of May, and last 

 during the whole of the summer. They are imi- 

 tations of those large moths that are seen towards 

 nightfall flitting about the meadows in warm 

 weather. The dark-coloured should be used 

 early in the evening, those of a lighter colour after 

 sunset, and those that are white after that. 



The mealy-brown moth. Body, any soft 

 brown fur, as of the hare, brown hog's down, 

 bear's fur, and the nearer the shade is to tan the 



