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Body, bright yellow mohair, or floss silk, ribbed 

 slightly with peacock's harl and orange silk ; 

 wings, mottled feather of the mallard dyed a 

 pale yellow-green. They are to stand nearly 

 erect, and to be slightly divided. Legs, a couple 

 of turns of a red ginger hackle ; tail, two hairs 

 from the rabbit's whisker. Hook, No. 5 or 6. 

 Another way (BLACKER'S) : Body, yellow- 

 green mohair; wings, mallard's feather dyed 

 yellow a black head ; legs, yellowish hackle ; 

 tails, three hairs from a black bear. A third way 

 (Mr. KONALDS'S): Body, the middle part of 

 pale straw-coloured floss silk, ribbed with silver 

 twist ; extremities (head and tail) brown peacock's 

 harl, tied with light brown silk thread ; tail, three 

 rabbit's whiskers: wings and legs, made buzz 

 with a mottled feather of the mallard, stained 

 olive. To make it with wings in their state of 

 rest, part of a feather similarly stained must be 

 used, and a pale brown bittern's hackle must be 

 wrapped round the same body under the wings. 

 What is called the buzz form, is an intended 

 imitation of the natural fly struggling and half- 

 drowned. A fly dressed with erect wings, and 

 one without them, or buzz, may be used on the 

 casting-line at the same time, the buzz imitation 

 being the stretcher or tail-fly. 



Mr. Bainbridge says of this fly ; " It appears 



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