IMITATION. BODY. Any yellowish buff fur ribbed with yellow or apple-green silk. WINGS. From a wing feather of a white hen, or fieldfare, stained pale yellow. LEGS. From an extremely pale ginger hackle, or a white feather dyed of a yellowish tint. Hook No. 2. short. No. 25. SKY BLUE. This fly comes from a water nympha, maintains its present state of existence two or three days, and then changes to a much lighter fly or spinner, which lives three or four days. IMITATION. BODY. Pale ginger mohair mixed with light blue fur. TAIL. A whisk or two of the hackle used for the legs. WINGS. From a feather of the sea swallow, or of a very light blue dun hen. LEGS. Hackle stained a pale yellow. Hook No. 0. short. H |