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Claret Bumble. Body, claret floss silk, ribbed with a strand of pea- 

 cock's sword feather ; medium blue dun cock's hackle ; hook, 

 No. o, Kendal scale. 



Most of the foregoing are fancy flies, but are 

 considered the best killers on English waters. In 

 this country it has been demonstrated, also, that 

 flies with bodies of peacock harl, or with yellow- 

 ish bodies, have been more uniformly successful 

 than others. From this it would appear that the 

 predilection of grayling for certain colors in arti- 

 ficial flies is much the same both in this country 

 and England. From my own experience I can 

 recommend the following well-known flies, adding, 

 however, that their construction should be a little 

 different from the conventional trout flies of these 

 names in having a red tag or tail of scarlet 

 wool, instead of the usual tail, and in having nar- 

 row split wings instead of the regular style of 

 full wings : — 



Yellowish-bodied flies : professor, queen of the 

 water, Oconomowoc, Lord Baltimore. Green- 

 bodied flies : coachman, Henshall, and grizzly king. 

 Other useful flies are black gnat, cinnamon, iron- 

 blue dun, oriole, red ant, gray hackle, and black 

 hackle. They should all be tied on Sproat or 

 O'Shaughnessy hooks, No. 12, Redditch or com- 



