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GENERAL FLIES 177 



Hofland's Fancy. This is another very useful fly, and 

 should be dressed of two sizes, Nos. 10 and 12. Body, dark 

 brown-red silk ; wings, hen pheasant or woodcock's wing ; 

 legs, red cock's hackle ; tail, two strands of the same. It is 

 very useful on fine waters, having a partial resemblance to 

 several small flies. 



The Governor. This is a very useful fly on many waters, 

 particularly in the metropolitan district, where its use is 

 almost general. I usually have three sizes of this fly by me ; 

 it is dressed of all sizes, from a No. 7 to a No. 10 or n hook. 

 It is useful by day tied small, and as an evening fly, on a No. 7 

 hook. Body, peacock's herl, dressed full and finished off at the 

 tail with two or three turns of bright orange-yellow floss silk. 

 It is sometimes an improvement to add some gold twist, and I 

 have done good work with it with a fine ribbing of gold twist ; 

 legs, red cock's hackle ; wing, hen pheasant's wing ; with a 

 grey drake wing it makes a capital late evening fly. The 

 original is, I believe, not a fly, but a beetle. 



The Edmead. This is a fly which is a good deal used about 

 the midland districts. Originally it was dressed, I believe, 

 with a bluish body, but the red body has been found to kill 

 best. It is a red-spinner body and hackle, with a grey drake 

 wing, dressed on about 10 or n hook. 



In the north they have a fly called 



Greenwell' s Glory * It kills well on all the northern streams, 

 and I am greatly mistaken if it will not kill equally well in the 

 south. Hook, No. 12 or 13 ; body, dark olive silk, thickly 

 ribbed with very fine gold wire ; legs, a small dark coch-y- 

 bondu hackle (red with black centre and tips) ; wings, wood- 

 cock's wing. Dressed on the smallest possible hook, it kills 

 well in the hottest weather. 



The Grouse Hackle. A capital hot-weather fly dressed 

 hacklewise on a No. n or 12 hook, with a small *hen grouse 

 hackle, and a yellow silk body with one turn of-^gold tinsel 

 at the tail. 



The Partridge Hackle. Dressed similarly to the last fly, 

 but with a grey partridge hackle and a lemon silk body. 



The last two flies, with the next one, and a black gnat, 

 perhaps, will fill a basket on any mountain beck or trout 

 burn in heather districts. They may be used a size or two 

 larger if necessary. 



* Designed by the late Canon Greenwell, of Durham, who is also the 

 eponymus of the Greenwell salmon fly, a favourite on the Tweed. ED. 



