No. 14. THE GRANNOM.

This fly comes from a water larva, and is upon the surface at about the same season as the Gravel Bed (No. 13.), and chiefly in the morning and evening. It lasts a little longer. The green tint of its body is derived from the colour of the eggs. It lays these upon the water. There are several species, but the figure (14.) represents the most common kind, and I have taken many of these flies out of the stomachs of Trout, even in August, which had a green colour at the tail of their bodies, and were as nearly as possible of the same size and general tint as those of April.

IMITATION.

BODY. Fur of hare's face left rough, spun on brown silk. A little green floss silk may be worked in at the tail to represent the bunch of eggs there.

WINGS. Feather from the partridge's wing, and made very full.

LEGS. A pale ginger hen's hackle. Hook, No. 2, long.

Made buzz with a feather from the back of the partridge's neck, wound upon the above body. REMARKS. The Shell Fly, or Palmer, as this

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is sometimes called, kills well made buzz with a landrail's scapular feather. Body, pea-green German wool. Make with orange silk, shown only at the head.

It is a good fly all the summer months, and into September.

No. 15. THE YELLOW DUN.

This beautiful fly, proceeding from a water nympha, lives in the form shown about three days. It is on the water generally from ten o'clock until three, and is one of our best flies. There is a larger variety upon some waters, having a greenish yellow cast in the body and butt of the wing, but which hitherto has not proved so successful as that represented.

IMITATION.

BODY. Yellow mohair, mixed with a little pale blue fur from a mouse. Or yellow silk thread waxed, and with the least blue rabbit fur spun upon it, and ribbed with yellow silk.

WINGS. Upright, from the lightest part of a young starling's quill feather.

LEGS. A light yellow dun hackle. Hook, No. 2, Grayling.

To make it buzz, a lighter dun hackle than is represented in the figure is wound upon the same body. In either case, make with primrose silk, and delicately.

This Yellow Dun changes to a Spinner of rather a lighter and yellower brown than that which the Blue Dun (No. 2.) turns to, is very nearly of the same size, and lives nine days. It is to be used on warm evenings. Its imitation may consequently be made of the same materials as that of the Red Spinner (see No. 3.), only choosing lighter tints.

REMARKS. If made as a hackle, prefer a cock's hackle for Grayling, a hen's hackle for Trout; and rib with unwaxed yellow silk over the body, as above. When made with the feather of a dotterel as a hackle, it is called the "Dotterel Dun," a far-famed fly.

No. 16. THE IRON BLUE DUN.

After emerging from its water nympha, this fly remains about two days in the state shown, and then changes to the Jenny Spinner (see No. 17.). It is one of the smallest flies worth the angler's notice, but not the least useful. The