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The desire to deal fortliwith with these two different situations 

 is imperative, and therefore it had better be gratified. 



Tiie writer can never forget the set expression of a friend when 

 gazing at a number of trays, replete with furs and feathers, and 

 speculating wildly on the proposed variation of flywork, in order to 

 meet the possible changes of the great luminary of the day. Times 

 out of number, prior to this occasion, he had stood and watched the 

 surroundings with strained eyes to get them to divulge their secret, 

 and he worked just as often for the purpose of discovering the fly of 

 incidental need. 



It was, however, from the Spey, that were brought away the most 

 agreeable memories of victory. The pattern ultimately devised and 

 christened then and there " The Variegated Sun Fly," simply 

 enraptured his friend by his own immediate experience with it. His 

 success, followed by still further fortune at a second pool, brought the 

 conviction that a new era had unmistakably been opened up. 

 Personally, the writer has seen enough, and done enough — eleven 

 fish taken with this fly at the stream opposite Aberlour on the Spey 

 in four consecutive July days — to destroy effectively and permanently 

 the last shred of contention tliat, to fish successfully under the 

 brightest suns of Midsummer is a fallacy. 



With regard to size and method of presentation, a very brief 

 explanation will suffice. 



The Sun Fly is always made comparatively small, a No. !'< 

 hook is the largest ever required. In streams, deep and rough — the 

 best of all places for it — the wing carries as many as half a dozen 

 golden toppings. T'.ie quicker the fly is played- -that is, conformably 

 to reason — the better one's chance of success ; but in most of these 



