170 Artificial Flies for taking Trout, <?. 



1. THE PRIME DUN. Head, ash-coloured silk; wings, 

 starling ; body, ash-coloured silk ; legs, dark red or black 

 cock's hackle. Limerick hook, No. 3. February and 

 March. 



2. ASH DUN OR Fox. Head, as No. 1 ; wings, as No. 1 ; 

 body, fox-cub's fur ribbed with straw-coloured silk ; legs, 

 ash-coloured hackle ; tail, two strands from a squirrel's 

 tail. Limerick hook, No. 2. February and March. (Plate 

 in. xcvi.) 



3. THE PALMER-FLY. Body, black hog's wool ribbed with 

 dark red silk, or a peacock's herl, and a red cock's hackle 

 over all. Good all the season, varying it in size. Some- 

 times add a red- tail tuft, (Plate v. m.) 



4. THE GOLDEN HACKLE. Body, black spaniel's ear and 

 dark yellow silk ribbed with gold twist, and a black, dark, 

 red, or tinged hackle over all. Used as No. 3. All the 

 season. 



5. THE BLACK- WING HACKLE. Wings, starling; body, 

 black water-dog's fur ; legs, black hackle. February and 

 March. 



6. MARCH BROWN DUN DRAKE OR COB FLY. Body, 

 brown foal's hair; wings, oobarra or Indian bustard, par- 

 tridge tail, hen pheasant, or woodcock, some ruddy, some 

 grey ; legs, grey feather from partridge's breast ; body, of 

 same, with copper- coloured silk ribbed over the foal's hair ; 

 some ribbed with gold twist over the foal's hair ; some (as 

 Plate in. vi.) of orange floss silk, ribbed with brown ; the 

 legs may be varied by using a dark red, or a pale amber- 

 coloured cock's hackle ; tail, two strands of the partridge 

 tail-feather, or two from the squirrel's tail. The male of 

 this fly approaches a chocolate brown, and the female a green 

 brown ; it lives for three days (as Plate in. vi.), and then 

 changes to the Red Spinner, (Plate in. Ixxii.) This fly, 

 varied in size, kills well all the season, especially in the 

 small becks after a fresh or flood, when they are running 

 brown. General size. Limerick hook, No. 3. March and 

 July. 



7. PHEASANT. Wings made of the strongly-marked 



