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Brown, male or female ; but I myself 

 have never had any particularly good 

 fortune with that lure. For one thing, 

 there is hardly ever time enough to fill 

 a basket with it. Usually, as far as I 

 can make out, the rise is over within an 

 hour, and, it would appear, there is only 

 one rise a-day. Besides, I have never found 

 the trout rising at artificial March Browns 

 so well as they rise at the real ones. 

 Indeed, there is some reason for believing 

 that an artificial fly which in appearance 

 and even in size is slightly different from 

 the model is rather better than an exact 

 effigy. Time and again I have had fair 

 fortune with a fly of wookcock wing and 

 quill or hare's-ear body, while a larger and 

 rougher lure in exact imitation of the 

 March Brown was on the same cast 

 plied with but poor result. This, I think, 

 is not an exceptional experience. If you 

 examine Malloch's Favourite or Hardy's 

 Favourite or any other similar "fancy 

 fly" issued by a noted maker of tackle, 

 you will find that whilst it has a general 



