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a dun's, but place it over print, and you can read 

 every word through ; and fur is practically as 

 transparent when wet. 



OF THE IMITATION OF NYMPHS, CADDIS, 

 ALDER LARV^, AND SHRIMPS. 



For some time after my introduction to Tup's 

 Indispensable I used it only as a dry fly, but one 

 July I put it over a fish without avail, and cast 

 it a second time without drying it. It was dressed 

 with a soft hackle, and at once went under, and 

 the trout turned at it and missed. Again I cast, 

 and again the trout missed, to fasten soundly at 

 the next offer. It was a discovery for me, and I 

 tried the pattern wet over a number of fish on 

 the same shallow, with most satisfactory results. 

 I thus satisfied myself that Tup's Indispensable 

 could be used as a wet fly ; and^ indeed, when 

 soaked its colours merge and blend so beautifully 

 that it is hardly singular ; and it was a remarkable 

 imitation of a nymph I got from a trout's mouth. 



The next step was to try it on bulging fish, and 

 to my great delight I found it even more attractive 

 than Greenwell's Glory. It was the foundation of 

 a small range of nymph patterns, but for under- 

 water feeders, whether bulging or otherwise, I 

 seldom need anything but Tup's Indispensable, 

 dressed with a very short, soft henny hackle in 

 place of the bright honey or rusty dun used for the 

 floating pattern. The next I tried was a Blue- 



