154 Fly-FiJhmg. 



fur, mixed with yellow mohair, and fpun on yellow filk ; 

 legs, a red hackle ; tail, two ftrands of a red hackle. 



34. Willow Fly. Hook, No. 10. Wings to lie flat, 

 of a pale brown hen's wing feather, and later in the fea- 

 fon, of a ftarling's feather ; body, mole's fur ribbed with 

 yellow filk, or fine gold thread ; legs, a dark grizzled 

 hackle. Equally good, if not better, without wings, and 

 made buzz. 



35. Pale Blue. Hook, No. n. Wings of a fea- 

 fwallow's feather ; body, the fineft pale blue fur mixed 

 with yellow mohair, and tied with pale yellow lilk ; legs, 

 the paleft blue hackle that can be got. 



In defcribing the materials to be ufed for the flies 

 above enumerated, (more efpecially as regards their 

 bodies,) I have done it more as a guide to the proper 

 colour, than with the view of laying down a rule that 

 cannot be deviated from. Imitation being the obje6l 

 in view, it is very poflible that the beginner may, by 

 his own ingenuity, difcover fomething altogether dif- 

 ferent in its nature from what has hitherto been ufed, 

 that would far better promote the defired end. At any 

 rate, he need not diftrefs himfelf, if any of the materials 

 above-mentioned fhould fail him at the moment he 

 moil requires them, as aim oft any fubftitute that ap- 

 proaches the right colour will anfwer in their room. 

 I fhould remark, that when I have directed the bodies 

 of flies to be made of Jilk, I mean, in moft cafes, not 

 f,ofs-Jilk s which is generally ufed, but filk unravelled, 

 as I have always found it to fit fo much better. One 

 exception to this I adopt in the cafe of the body of the 



