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with a light dun hackle, or a dirty white hackle will answer 

 in the absence of the former ; the head and tail of brown silk ; 

 hooks No. 9 or 10. 



The Black Gnat is a small fly, and a pretty good imitation 

 of a gnat ; it is best on bright waters after ten o'clock ; hooks 

 8 to 10. 



The Yellow Sally has yellow wings, body, and legs ; some- 

 times it is tied as a hackle. It is a good fly at sundown, and 

 as long as the angler can see where it falls on the water. 



The Fern-Fly is attractive, with its bright orange body and 

 lead-colored wings. 



The Alder-Fly. — Next to the Eed and Brown Spinners, this 

 is the best stretcher-fly on Holland's list. I have used two 

 of them on fine low water at the same time, with great effect, 

 one for dropper and the other for stretcher. The body of 

 this fly should be made of copper-colored peacock's hurl, and 

 the wings of a feather from a brown mallard, or brown hen. 

 This fly can be varied by having a black mohair body, 

 picked out near the head to represent the legs, as in the 

 Brown Spinner. 



May Flies (the Green and the Gray Drake are the chief 

 representatives), as killing as they may be on English waters, 

 are seldom used successfully in this country. 

 The Mackerel-Fly is supplanted by the Brown Spinner. 

 A Fancy Fly, with red or brown hog's wool for body, 

 picked out beneath near the head, for legs; a dark brown 

 mallard or hen's feather, with a few fibres from the feather 

 of the scarlet ibis and green parrot thrown in for wings ; a 

 tail of two fibres of a red macaw or ibis feather, and the end 

 of the body tipped with tinsel, is sometimes a good stretcher. 

 I have used it successfully on the rifts of the Beaverkill, in 

 Sullivan County, N. Y. ; it also does well on the still waters 

 of the Adirondacks. The hook should be No. 2 or 3. 



