98 AUTUMNAL 
rejected ; at another time a faint ripple on the surface and 
a slight tug is the only indication of a rise, and I have 
generally observed that the largest fish take the fly in 
this manner. What a delightful sensation it is when, 
upon striking gently, you experience the familiar steady 
pull and determined resistance of a fine grayling. Many 
writers of experience recommend fine-drawn gut for this 
kind of flyfishing, but for my own part I prefer single horse 
hair, being less liable to ravel with the twisting play so 
characteristic of this fish, The needle brown, cinnamon 
fly, red ant, orange dun, willow fly, and blue midge, are all 
excellent flies for grayling during the autumn months ; and 
I can also strongly recommend the patterns given in the 
following list, having tested them practically for many 
seasons on both the Yore and Wharfe. 
No. 1.—The honey dun bumble.—Body, claret floss silk, 
ribbed with bright peacock’s harl, with a pure honey dun 
hackle wound on hacklewise. Remarks: this and the two 
following patterns are considered standard grayling flies on 
the Derbyshire rivers ; they kill well when there is no par- 
ticular fly on the water—in fact I rarely make up a cast in 
autumn without one at the point. 
No. 2.—The orange bumble.—-Body, orange floss silk, rib- 
bed with bronze peacock’s harl, and a pure blue dun hackle 
over it. 
No. 3.—The ruby bumble.—Body, ruby-coloured floss silk, 
ribbed with bronze peacock’s harl, and a dark dun hackle 
as in preceding pattern. 
No. 4.—The little chap.—Body, the reddest strand of a 
peacock’s feather, legged and winged hacklewise with a 
lightish dun hackle and mulberry coloured silk. Remarks: 
this is Mr. Ronalds’ pattern, and is a first-rate killer ; it 
may also be dressed as a winged fly, with a feather taken 
from the darkest part of a starling’s wing ; synonym, the 
peacock fly, 
