26 FLY FISHING FOR TROUT. 



the Stone Fly; the Red Spinner, which is her 

 fly made of roddyd {i.e. ruddy) wool; and her 

 Yellow Fly, which is the Little Yellow May 

 Dun. The Diln Cut of Dame Juliana is the 

 Yellow Dun, the name having survived until 

 the nineteenth century.* Then her Maure 

 (mulberry coloured) Fly and Tandy (tan 

 coloured) Fly, with a body of tan coloured wool 

 and wings of the lightest mallard, tied back to 

 back, can be nothing but two dressings of the 

 Mayfly in different states. The Wasp Fly, with 

 a black body ribbed with yellow, speaks for 

 itself. The Drake Fly, with its black body and 

 dark mallard wing, is uncommonly like the 

 modern dressing of the Alder. Lastly, the 

 Shell Fly is the Shell Fly of Ronalds, with a 

 dressing very similar, in spite of three and a 

 half centuries. Thus it is possible to identify 

 clearly eleven out of the twelve. The remaining 

 fly is the Black Louper, appearing in May, 

 which seems to have been a hackle fly, and 

 corresponds to our Black Palmer or Coch-y- 

 Bonddhu, but cannot be identified exactly. 



The important thing, however, is not the 

 exact identification of these flies more than four 

 hundred years after they were described, 

 remarkable though that is, but the recognition 



*i.e. the Yellow Dun of Ronalds, not to be confused with the 

 other Yellow Dun, his Little Yellow May Dun. See also 

 Practical Fly Fishing by Arundo (John Beever) 1849, p. 18. 

 He describes a fly he calls the Spring Dun, which is the 

 summer dressing of the Olive Dun, and gives Dun Cut as one 

 of its synonyms. Sir Humphry Davy too gives Dun Cut as a 

 synonym of the Yellow Dun. 



