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gold tinsel; Legs, brown hackle wound 
whole length of body; this called Brown 
and Red, Soldier, or Red Palmer. (Most 
hackle- and palmer-flies have the body cor¬ 
pulent.) 
Ginger Palmer (diversified) : Body, yel¬ 
low silk sometimes ribbed with silver tinsel 
or of ginger brown; Legs, pale ginger 
hackle wound whole of body. 
Gray Hackle (or Palmer, Ashies) — 
(twelve patterns) : Body, brown, black, 
or green herl, or gray ( Gray-bodied 
Ashy), red ( Red-bodied Ashy), or yel¬ 
low ; Legs, always gray hackle; with 
hackle wound whole length of body, called 
Gray Palmer. With green silk body, the 
palmer dressed fly is called Gray and 
Green Palmer. 
Caddis (diversified—sometimes described 
as Stone-fly): Wings, gray; Body, green; 
Legs, yellow wound palmer. Or Wings, 
same; Body, elongated brown ribbed with 
black silk; Legs, brown hackle with 
black root. Or Wings, light heron; 
Body, olive mohair picked out at shoul¬ 
der for Legs; Tail, brown mallard. 
Cahill: Wings, 
gray mottled 
(w o o d d u c k 
breast) ; Body, 
mouse-colored mo¬ 
hair ; Legs, brown 
hackle; Tail, gray 
mottled (wood- 
duck). 
C o a c h m a n : 
W ings, white 
(swan, duck- or 
goose-wing); 
Body (rather cor¬ 
pulent), bro n z e 
green (peacock) 
herl; Legs, brown 
hackle. 
Lead - Winged 
. (Dark) Coach- 
' man : Wings, lead 
j color (heron) ; 
! Body and Legs, as 
above. 
Royal Coach¬ 
man : Same as 
Coachman except 
that the green herl 
Body has a red silk 
hand in the middle. 
Cowdung (di¬ 
versified) : Wings, 
yellow brown 
(clay) or mouse 
gray (duck- or 
crane- wing); 
Body, yellow 
brown or yellow 
green; Legs, 
brown hackle. 
August Dun 
(tHree patterns) : Wings, brown (hen¬ 
wing) ; Body, brown silk made fuzzy with 
English grouse-feather winding, and ribbed 
with yellow silk; Legs, red hackle; Tail, 
rabbit whiskers. Or Wings, clay; Body, 
brown ribbed with yellow silk; Legs, brown 
hackle; Tail, gray hackle. Or Wings, 
brown and black mottled; Body, brown 
ribbed with gold tinsel; Legs and Tail, 
brown hackle. 
Autumn Dun: Wings, gray streaked 
with black; Body, black ribbed with yellow 
silk; Legs, gray hackle; Tail, black hackle. 
Blue Dun (diversified) : Wings, blue 
gray or ash gray; Body, blue gray; Legs, 
gray hackle; Tail, gray or black hackle. Or 
Wings, light (grayish) blue; Body, white 
ribbed with light (grayish) blue; Legs, 
light (grayish) blue hackle. 
Iron Blue Dun (diversified) : Wings, 
gray blue or black (starling sometimes 
used) ; Body, pale gray blue (mohair, ribbed 
with yellow silk; Legs and Tail, brown or 
gray blue hackle. With Wings, pale lead; 
Body, mauve-colored mohair; Legs, gray 
hackle; Tail, gray; this called Pale Blue, 
or Evening Dun. 
Dotterel Dun: Wings, gray (the Dot¬ 
terel is an European plover) ; Body, light 
gray ribbed with yellow silk; Legs, gray 
hackle; Tail, gray mottled. 
Golden Dun: Wings, gray; Body, yellow 
or olive ribbed with gold tinsel; Legs, ash 
hackle. 
Great Dun (diversified) : Wings, dark 
gray (transparent) or black; Body, purple 
brown (maroon) ; Legs, gray black or black 
hackle; Tail, dark brown barred with gray. 
Hare’s Ear (Dun) — (diversified): 
Wings, gray or blue gray; Body, fur from 
hare or gray blue mohair; Legs, blue gray 
(mohair body picked out) ; Tail, black 
hackle or none. Or Wings, gray; Body, 
blue ribbed with gray; Legs, white hackle: 
Tail, gray hackle. Or Wings, dark brown; 
Body, brown fur; Legs, brown hackle. Or 
Wings, gray; Body, very dark red ribbed 
with gold tinsel: Legs, black hackle; Tail, 
brown hackle; this pattern called Gold- 
ribbed Hare’s Ear. as also a pattern having 
a gray body ribbed with yellow silk. 
O’live Dun: Wings, blue gray; Body, 
olive ribbed with yellow silk; Legs, yellow 
green hackle. 
Olive Gnat (diversified) : Wings, dark 
gray; Body, olive green; Legs, brown or 
ginger or black hackle; Tail, same as legs 
or none. 
Prime Gnat (Marston's Fancy) : 
Wings, dark gray; Body, brown fur; Legs, 
brown hackle. 
Orange Dun (two patterns) : Wings, 
light brown; Body, orange; Legs, brown 
palmer hackle. Or with Wings, blue gray; 
and Legs of red hackle. 
Whirling Dun (diversified) : Wings, 
light brown; Body, blue gray ribbed .with 
yellow silk or ginger and yellow mixed; 
Legs and Tail, ginger hackle. With Wings, 
drab; Body, gren gray; Legs and Tail, red 
hackle; this pattern called Dark Whirling 
Dun. With Wings and Body, ligth gray; 
Legs, red hackle; Tail, brown hackle; this 
called Light Whirling Dun. 
Ye-llow Dun (diversified) : Wings, blue 
gray; Body, yellow or yellow and blue 
mixed, and ribbed with yellow silk; Legs, 
yellow hackle; Tail, black and white barred 
or none. 
Y e l l o w May 
Dun : Wings, pale 
yellow green mot¬ 
tled ; Body, gray 
ribbed with yellow 
silk; Legs, yellow 
hackle. 
Y e l l o w May 
(May-Fly — di¬ 
versified) : (May¬ 
flies are made in 
both winged and 
hackle patterns. 
One of the most 
popular English 
patterns has the 
body made of 
straw and the 
hackle of summer 
duck — wood-duck. 
The best winged 
patterns have 
wings of stained 
mallard feather. 
Mr. Dewar prefers 
the smaller- and 
darker-winged pat¬ 
tern to the larger- 
and lighter-winged. 
See also Green 
D r a k e patterns 
listed.) Wings, 
yellow; Body, Legs 
and Tail, brown. 
Or W ings, de¬ 
scribed as pale 
yellow mottled 
with brown or 
greenish yellow 
mottled (gray mal¬ 
lard feather stained bright yellow) ; Body, 
yellow ribbbed with gold tinsel: Legs and 
Tail, yellow or yellow mottled hackle 
(Black hackle occasionally used for Tail.) 
Flight’s Fancy: Wings, dark gray; 
Body, 3 ellow ribbed with gold tinsel; Legs, 
brown hackle; Tail, gray hackle. 
Grannom (diversified) : Wings, brown 
and black mottled (turkey) : Body, brown 
with a green tip (and sometimes tag also) ; 
Legs, brown hackle. Or Wings, pale gray 
turkey; Body, gray mohair picked out at 
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UPPER LEFT CORNER 
Salmon Fly- 
Dusty Miller 
Single Hook Size 6 
The flies named below correspond to those 
numbered in cut on opposite page. Work¬ 
ing descriptions of materials used are 
given in the accompanying article. 
UPPER RIGHT CORNER 
Salmon Fly 
Brown Fairy 
Double Hook Size 8 
SINGLE HOOK 
No. 1 No. 2 
Jock Scott Silver Gray 
Size 3/0 Size 154 
SALMON FLIES 
No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 
Durham Rangei Green Highlander Black Dose 
Size 2 Size 4 Size 2 
DOUBLE HOOK 
No. 6 No. 7 
Silver Doctor Mitchel 
Size 4 Size G 
EXTRA QUALITY BASS ON O’SHAUGHNESSY HOOKS 
No. 9 No. 10 No. 11 No. 12 No. 13 
Silver Doctor Howell Ferguson Montreal White Tip Scarlet Ibis 
Size 2 Size 4 Size 4 Size 6 Size 6 
No. 8 
Parmachene Belle 
Size 2 
DRY (OR FLOATING) FLIES ON ENGLISH 
DRY FLY HOOKS 
Size 8, LONG SHANK (New No. 7 Long May) 
No. 14 No. 15 No. 16 No. T7 
Yellow Sally Mills Ripple Pale Buff Montreal 
Size 10, LONG SHANK (New No. 5 Long May) 
No. 27 No. 2S No. 29 No. 30 No. 31 
Red Red Iron Blue March Apple 
Tag Quill Quill Brown Grflen 
Size 10, REGULAR (New No. 5) 
No. 37 No. 38 No. 39 No. 40 No. 41 
Grizzly Little Dark Olive Rube 
King Marryat Coachman Dun Wood 
No. 52 No. 53 No. 54 No. 55 No. 56 
Whirling Blue Montreal Whirling Blue Red 
Dun Dark Silver Body Dun Quill Ant 
• Size 12, REGULAR (New No. 3) 
No. 63 No. 64 No. 65 No. 66 No. 67 
Brown Hare’s Ear Ginger Parmachene Olive 
Sedge Quill March Brown Belle Dun Pale 
EXTRA OUALITY TROUT FLIES ON 
O’SHAUGHNESSY HOOKS, Size 8 
No. IS 
Babcock 
No. 19 
New Page 
No. 20 
Red Tag 
No. 21 
Wilson 
No. 22 
Queen 
of Waters 
No. 23 
Mills 
No. 1 
Size 10 
No. 24 
Rube 
Wood 
No. 25 
Royal 
Coachman 
No. 26 
Red 
Hackle 
No. 32 No. 33 
Parmachene Pale 
Belle Yellow 
No. 34 
Professor 
No. 35 
Orange 
Miller 
No. 36 
Montreal 
No. 42 
No. 43 
Size 12 
No. 44 
No. 45 
No. 46 
Yellow 
Swift 
Dark 
Yellow 
I Iackstaff 
Sally 
Water Coachman 
May 
Hackle 
SPECIAL STREAM TROUT FLIES ON SNECK 
HOOKS—Size 8 
No. 47 No. 48 No. 49 No. 50 No. 51 
Queen Flight’s Marlow Alexandra Grannom 
of Waters Fancy Buzz 
Size 10 
No. 57 No. 58 No. 59 No. 60 No. 61 No. 62 
Mershom Turkey Gold Ribbed Good Oak March 
Brown Hare’s Ear Evening Brown 
Size 12 
No. 68 No. 69 No. 70 No. 71 No. 72 No. 73 No. 74 
Black Professor Blue Golden Dun Boots- Red Red 
Gnat Bottle Midge Black Ant Tag 
No. 75 
Streamer Yellow Sally 
Size 6 
No. 76 
Belgrade Bug Flat Wing Grouse 
^ No. 77 
Streamer Montreal 
Size 8 
