The Fly-fisher's Entomology |
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Anglers Baëtis black cock's hackle Black ostrich herl Blue Dun BODY boil Brazil wood brown silk thread buzz chiefly coils Coleoptera colour copperas Dark Mackerel days as shown Diptera dubbing Dun Drake eggs Ephemera Ephemerida Family feather female fisherman flies floss silk ribbed fly comes fly fishing foot line Genus gold twist Green Drake Grey hackle stained hare's hook Hymenoptera IMITATION inches insect Iron Blue Jenny Spinner June Larvæ lighter little rapid lives three male mallard manner metamorphosis mohair natural wings nearly Neuroptera Order pale ginger Palmer peacock's herl plate purple rabbit's whiskers red cock's hackle red hackle Red Spinner reel round season seems shank sometimes Species sport spun Staffordshire stained hackle starling's wing stream surface TAIL taste three or four throwing tied tint Tipulida Trichoptera Trout and Grayling water larva water nympha whilst whisks wind windy days WINGS AND LEGS wound yellow dun