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mostly mottled brown or dusky wings, with dark legs and brown 
or yellowish bedies, 
A third class of artificial flies—taking the term in its popuiar 
acceptation, without regarding the palpable misnomer—in- 
cludes the palmers or rough caterpillars and the beetles. These 
may be usefully classed together, as they are formed of similar 
materials (the cock’s hackle being generally dominant in both), 
and used in much the same states of the water. To these 
three distinct classes I would add for convenience a fourth or 
‘miscellaneous’ class, comprising a great variety of insects not 
distinctively aquatic but occasionally attractive to trout and 
grayling. F 
I begin my list with the flies which I have found most use- 
ful all through the year on a great variety of waters; purposely 
limiting the number, in order that anglers who trust the results 
of my experience may, in the stocking of their fly books, avoid 
that embarras de richesses which will lead them to perplexity 
at the outset and useless changes in the course of a day’s fishing. 
It should always be remembered that the fly is often blamed 
for the mood of the fish, and altered perhaps just when they 
are beginning to feed. . 
1. Zhe Yellow Dun.—This fly is good throughout the 
trout season, and is taken freely by grayling in August and 
September. 
2. The Hare's Lug.—This is the form of the blue dun 
with which I have done most execution through the year. 
In Wales, Scotland and the northern counties of England 
I prefer it to No. 1. 
3. Zhe Marlow Buzz, or Cockabundy (a corruption of 
‘Coch-y-bonddu’).—This not only makes the best of droppers 
in rough mountain and moorland streams, where it is indis- 
pensable, but if tied very small and dark may be depended on 
in the clearest streams—those of Hampshire, for instance, or 
Derbyshire—especially when there are but few Zphemere on 
the water. 
4. The Red Sand Fly,—I have found this fly very killing 
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