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brown and woolly, from close to the skin, 

 enabled me to reproduce exactly the colours of the 

 natural insect. I dressed the imitation with short, 

 soft, dark blue whisks, body of the mixed dubbing 

 tied with well-waxed bright yellow silk, and 

 bunched at the shoulder to suggest wing-cases, the 

 lower part of the body being ribbed with fine gold 

 wire. Two turns of a very short, dark rusty 

 dun hackle completed the imitation, much to my 

 satisfaction. 



Apparently it was no less agreeable to the trout, 

 for, beginning to fish next morning at ten o'clock, 

 I found six fish rising in a shallow. I began with 

 a small Red Sedge, as no dun was yet on the water, 

 and missed several of them. Then, putting up 

 Pope's Green Nondescript, I again missed three 

 fish in succession. I then bethought myself of my 

 nymph, and, knotting it on, in a few minutes I had 

 five of the six fish, and had lost the other. I then 

 found a trout feeding in a run, evidently under 

 water, I made a miscast at him, and he came a 

 yard across to take the nymph, but did not take a 

 good hold, for I lost him, only to secure a better 

 fish a few moments later. It then came on to 

 blow and pelt with rain in such sort as to render 

 it no sort of pleasure to continue fishing, and I 

 knocked off at eleven o'clock, with three brace 

 as the result of an hour's fishing. 



I have made me a shallow spoon-shaped net of 

 butterfly-net material to attach to the ring of my 



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