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This last fly is to be dressed with neat wings 

 from the torn-tit's tail upon a very small hook. 

 When the living fly is abundant, the artificial 

 one, used on a very fine casting line, will prove 

 successful. It kills best about noon. 



Pale dun. Body, yellow martin's fur ; wings, 

 a lark's wing-feather, stained a light yellow ; 

 legs, a fine honey-dun hackle. To be dressed 

 very neatly with pale straw-coloured silk on a 

 No. 12 hook An excellent summer-fly in low 

 and clear water. 



The two following flies are very good ones, 

 and are dressed by Mr. Eonalds thus : 



July-dun. Body, mole's fur and pale yellow 

 mohair mixed, and spun on yellow silk ; wings, 

 dark part of a feather from the starling's wing, 

 stained darker in strong onion dye ; legs, dark dun 

 hackle ; tail, the two fibres of the hackle. Hook, 

 No. 10 and 11. Mr. Konalds says of this fly, 

 " It affords a great treat to the trout and gray- 

 ling, and lasts until the August-dun takes its 

 place, in the beginning of August." 



Gold-eyed gauze-wing. Body, very pale yel- 

 lowish green floss silk, tied on with silk thread of 

 the same colour ; wings and legs, the palest blue 

 dun hackle which can be procured. Hook, No. 

 11 and 12. In my opinion legs are scarcely 

 necessary, and the wings should be dressed long 

 and flat, of a lark's feather, stained of the lightest 



