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THE TROUT. 
or ginger hackle ; wings, the light part of a pheasant’s wing. 
Hook No. 9. 
Coch-a-bonddu. This fly is a well known favorite 
throughout the United Kingdom, though not always under the 
same name. The cock that furnishes the peculiarly mixed 
deep and red black feather, necessary to make this fly, is in 
great estimation. Body, peacock’s herl ; legs and wings, red 
and black, or coch-a-bonddu hackle. Hook No. 8 or 9. For 
clear streams it is dressed on a No. 12 hook. 
The Yellow Sally. Body, pale yellow fur, or mohair, 
ribbed with fawn colored silk ; legs, a ginger hackle ; wings, 
a white hackle, died yellow. Ilook No. 9. 
Ginger Haclclc. Body, short and spare, of yellow silk; 
legs a.ud wings, a ginger hackle. Hook No. 8. 
Grouse Hackle. Body, varied to the water and season, 
6uch as peacock’s herl, orange silk, &c. ; legs and wings, a 
grouse hackle. Hook from No. 8 to 12. 
The Dottcril Hackle. Body made of yellow silk; legs 
and wings from the feather of a dotteril. Hook from No. 6 
to 12. This is an excellent fly, and in the north parts of 
England considered superior even to the red hackle. 
The Water Cricket. Body, orange floss silk, tied on with 
black silk; legs, are made best with peacock’s topping; if 
this cannot be easily procured, a black cock’s hackle will 
answer the purpose. Either of these must be wound all 
down the body, and the fibres then snapped off. 
The Blue-Bottle Fly. Body, dark blue floss silk, tied 
with brown silk; legs, a cock’s black hackle; wings, feather 
of the starling’s wing. Hook No. 9 to 12.” 
Common House-Fly. Body, ostrich herl, rather full ; legs, 
a black hackle ; wings, the feather of the starling’s wing. 
* The sizes of hooks used by Ilofland are entirely too small for the 
majority of our streams. Where a hook No. 9 or 10 is recommended, 
No. 4 or 5 should bo used. Those spoken of by Blaine uro more suitublo. 
