340 SALMON AND TROUT. 
can possibly be used in Hampshire, from one end of the 
season to the other. It is always worth atrial. It is 
sold in thousands, and slays its thousands every year. 
(3) The same pattern as the last, with light brown fibres of 
hare’s fur tied in for legs. Very good in April, and an 
excelient floater. 
(4) Body: Leveret’s fur dyed olive, ribbed with gold wire. 
Hackle and wings as before. This is known as the 
‘rough spring olive.’ A useful variety. 
Ffook, o and oo. 
1.6.) OLIVE DUN. I. RED QUILL. VI.RED SPINNER. 
(5) THE INDIA-RUBBER-BODIED OLive Dun.—This is a ‘de- 
tached-bodied’ fly (figured in the illustration annexed, 
the numbers corresponding with the numbers of the flies 
in this list), and if carefully made is a most killing pat- 
tern in April. Every year since I first discovered its 
merits on the Winnal Club water at Winchester I have 
found it useful, frequently killing with it when the usual 
favourites have been tried in vain over rising fish. The 
rubber body was not my own idea, though I believe I 
was the first to try it and prove its value. 
The fly is made lighter or darker according to the 
colour of the rubber, and wings and hackle must be 
chosen to match the body. The hackle should be of a 
brownish olive to harmonise with the body, which, when 
held up to the light, has a translucent appearance, as 
like to the body of a, natural dun as it is possible to 
