CHAPTER IV. 



DUNS. SPINNERS, &c. EPHEMERA 



PLATE 4. 



The first to claim the would-be angler's attention, 

 and one which has probably been more successfully 

 imitated and generally used than any, is the March 

 Brown shewn in fig. 36. There are several varieties 

 which go by this name, and they vary considerably in 

 size and shade, but the general characteristics are the 

 same, mottled wings, yellow and brown body, and 

 long tails. It is dressed in all sizes, from the smallest 

 trout to salmon fly, and being typical of a mottled 

 insect, does equally well in all. 



Fig. 37 is an early olive dun, and being of a typical 

 insect colour, does equal execution to the March 

 Brown, and appears early in April. After a few days 

 it changes into a brown and yellow spinner, as shewn 

 on fig. 38. 



Fig. 39 is the large red spinner, which is the 

 imago of the March Brown. We were never satisfied 

 with the success of the dressing of the spinners, either 

 as imitations or lures, until we hit on the device of 

 using various bright coloured hackles to suggest the 

 colour of their wings ; in this way a suggestion of 

 the beauty of this prismatic effect may be obtained, 



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