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and it is the best to-day. It would be difficult to say 

 why this fly has remained so killing when others have 

 had their season and then have proved worthless. Of 

 course, the angler may increase the above list a hun- 

 dred fold ; he may use a Hackle, a Professor, or a Queen 

 of the Water with occasional success, but in my ex- 

 perience the cast that kills is a Cahill for a stretcher 

 and a Marston's Fancy and a Drab Wing Cowdung 

 for droppers. The Marston's Fancy is tied in various 

 patterns, but the one I have found the best is that 

 shown in Mrs. Marbury's " Favorite Flies." But that 

 book must not be a guide to the Cahill, as Fig. 1 2 1 in 

 " Favorite Flies " is a very different fly. Fig. 1 1 8 is 

 more like a Cahill ; possibly it is a typographical error 

 in giving 121 instead of 1 18. The body of the Cow- 

 dung should be a light greenish-yellow, not a cinnamon 

 color. The Yellow May and Green Drake are used 

 in May only, when the May fly is on the water. The 

 Coachman and Black Gnat are used in the evening, es- 

 pecially in June and early July. Uncle Thee always 

 used a Coachman for a stretcher; he was frequently 

 criticised for this, but his reason for doing so, as he 

 confided to me, was simply that he could see it better. 

 A No. 1 o fly, fifty or sixty feet away and partly under 

 water, is not a particularly conspicuous object at best, 

 and the white wings of the Coachman were probably 

 more so than the usual drab wing. Orvis's Red Fox is 

 a good fly, so also is the Whirling Dun. The March 

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