262 THE FLY-DRY MAN'S HANDBOOK 



With reference to the remaining sedge-flies, I 



worked out with great care a 



Three typical patterns colour scheme, and have, I 



of sedges. think, succeeded in producing 



three typical patterns of sedges 

 which should be sufficient for any fly-fisherman's box 

 or book on any of the south-country chalk-streams. 

 In other parts he might require other patterns. 

 No. 31 is a dark-coloured fly of a dusky brown hue 

 I dressed on a No. i hook, and is called the small dark 

 sedge. No. 32, paler, slightly more ruddy and larger, 

 is called the inedium sedge, and is dressed on a No. 2 

 hook, and No. 33, the largest of the three, has mottled 

 wings of a cinnamon tint, a dull yellow-green body and 

 brown ginger legs ; it is dressed on a No. 3 hook, and 

 is called the cinnamon sedge. 



These were all matched from the types of natural 

 insects selected for the purpose, and one of the leading 

 entomologists of the day named these insects indepen- 

 dently and confirmed my identification. The small 

 dark sedge was a male Go'era pilosa, the medium sedge 

 a female of the same species, and the cinnamon sedge 

 a male Limnophilus lunatus. 



The grannom {Brachycentrus subnubilus) is a fly 



which thirty years ago was 



Grannom. most plentiful on the Test, and 



it was always welcomed by the 

 old school of dry-fly men in the spring, because many 

 of the large fish were killed by it, and it certainly was 

 an insect which seemed to bring the trout rapidly into 



