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ed on a No. 6 or 7 hook, and winged with the red rump 
feather of a pheasant, when it is found excellent as a lake fly. 
Green Drake. Body, yellow floss silk, ribbed with brown 
silk, the extreme head and tail coppery peacock’s lierl ; 
legs, a red or ginger hackle; wings, the mottled wing of the 
mallard, stained olive ; tail or whisk, three hairs from a rab- 
bit’s whiskers. Hook No. 6. The natural fly appears in 
May and June, in such vast numbers that the trout become 
glutted with them, and grow fat upon their good living. 
Sometimes preferred dressed on a No. 4 or 5 hook. 
Grey Drake. Body, white floss silk, ribbed with dark 
brown or mulberry colored silk ; head, and top of the tail, 
peacock’s herl ; legs, a grizzle cock’s hackle ; wings, a mal- 
lard’s mottled feather, made to stand upright; tail, three 
whiskers of a rabbit. 
The Black Palmer. This is a standard fly, and its merits 
are too well known to need a description. It is a valuable 
drop-fly in dark, rainy, or windy weather, and in full water. 
Body, ostrich’s herl, ribbed with silver twist, and a black 
cock’s hackle over all. 
The Soldier Palmer. This fly, and its varieties, may be 
considered the most general fly on the list, and mauy An- 
glers never fit up a fly-book without having a red hackle of 
some kind for a drop-fly. The one given as a specimen may 
be used with success for large trout, and a strong water ; but 
for a blight stream a smaller hook must be adopted, and the 
fly must be more spare of hackle ; and, should the water bo 
very clear, the gold twist had better be omitted, and a spare 
hackle be tied with red twist; another variety, is the using 
a black hackle for the head of the fly, body red mohair, or 
squirrel’s fur, ribbed with gold twist, and red cock’s hackle 
over all. 
The Governor. Body, coppery colored peacock’s herl, 
nbbed with gold twist, tipped with scarlet twist ; legs, red 
