. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. THE TROUT. 103 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 her] ; legs, a red or ginger hackle; wings, the mottled wing of tho mallard, stained olive; tail or whisk, three hairs from a rab- bit's whiskers. Hoo
. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. THE TROUT. 103 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 her] ; legs, a red or ginger hackle; wings, the mottled wing of tho 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, arid its varieties, may be considered the most general fly on the list, and many 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 be 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 scpiirrel's fur, ribbed with gold twist, and red cock's hackle over all. The Govern
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