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of red mohair. If there are Chub in the stream, and they are 

 troublesome, I substitute a dubbing of bright orange, gene- 

 rally of hog's down,* to avoid them, for red is very attractive 

 to those pests. 



A Brown Spinner is -made by using a brown mallard's 

 feather for wings, brown mohair or hog's wool for body, and 

 a brown hackle for legs. This is considered by many a 

 better fly than the Red Spinner, and is used mostly as a 

 stretcher. The same fly is sometimes made by picking out 

 the hog's wool dubbing under the wings, to represent legs, 

 instead of using a hackle for that purpose. 



The March Brown, and Cowdung, I have never taken a 

 fancy to, nor the Stone Fly ; they are useless when one has a 

 supply of Spinners in his book. 



There are several small flies with light yellow or slate 

 bodies and lead- colored wings, described by Ronalds, which 

 resemble each other closely ; they are good for the evening, 

 or on well-shaded waters at midday. These are the Cockwing, 

 Golden Dun Midge, Yellow Dun, Skyblue, Whirling Blue Dun, 

 and Little Pale Blue Dun. None of them should be on hooks 

 larger than No. 7. 



The Iron Blue Dun is used with effect at almost any time 

 of day. It is preferable as a drop-fly. 



The Grannom has a body of hare's fur ; wings of a partridge 

 feather, made full ; legs of a pale ginger hackle, and a short 

 tuft of green floss silk at the tail, to represent the bag of eggs 

 which this insect carries at the extremity of its body. In 

 this country, the Grannom is found on the water towards the 

 latter part of June, mostly towards sundown ; this imitation 

 of it is a killing fly as a stretcher on a No. 8 hook. 



The Jenny Spinner (this is a Hackle). I have seen this 

 diminutive fly used with great success as a dropper, on the 

 same whip with the Grannom ; body, white floss silk, wound 



