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Our list may be considered somewhat meagre, but in actual practice it will generally prove extensive enough, as it provides for all but unexpected events.
Dressings of the patterns
No. I. GREEXWELL Quill.
Body: Dark quill.
Hackle: Red with black centre, often termed "cochybondu hackle."
Tail: Dark olive.
Wings: Hen blackbird, upright.
Season: Reliable all through the season.
No. 2. Dark Olive Dun.
Body: Dark olive quill.
Hackle: Cock's hackle, dyed dark olive.
Tail: Dark olive.
Wings: Blackbird, Upright.
Season: April.
No. 3. Medium Olive Dun.
Body: Medium olive quill.
Hackle: Cock's hackle, dyed medium olive.
Tail: Medium olive.
Wings: Snipe, upright.
Season: May, and occasionally thereafter.
No. 4. Tale Olive Dun.
Body: Light olive quill.
Hackle: Cock's hackle, dyed light olive.
Tail: Light olive.
Wings: Starling, upright.
Season: June and July.
No. 5. Rough Olive,
Body: White swan herl, dyed olive, ribbed with gold.
Hackle: Cock's hackle, dyed medium olive.
Tail: Medium olive.
Wings: Starling, upright.
Season: Useful any time, very good in April and September.
No. 6. March Brown.
Body: Brown quill.
Hackle: Cock's hackle, dyed olive.
Tail: Dark olive.
Wings: Hen-pheasant wing, upright.
Season: April.
No. 7. Iron-Blue Dun.
Body: Black quill.
Hackle: Cock's hackle, dyed dark olive.
Tail: Dark olive.
Wings: Blackbird, upright.
Season: April and May, cold days during summer, and September.
No. 8. Black Spider.
Body: Black quill. Hackle: Black hen.
Tail: Black.
Season: Useful at any time.
No. 9. Red Quell.
Body: Undyed quill.
Hackle: Ginger hen.
Tail: Ginger.
Season: Evenings of June and July.
No. 10. Blue Hen Spider.
Body: Yellow quill, ribbed with brown silk.
Hackle: Blue hen (light dun).
Tail: Blue hen.
Season: Evenings of June and July, when Pale Watery Dun is up.
No. 11. Gravel-bed (Clyde Sand-fly).
Body: Black quill.
Hackle: Black hen's, long and fixed on top of wing.
Wings: Hen-pheasant tail, few fibres only, tied flat along the body.
Season: Second fortnight of May to end of July; in warm weather.
No. 12. Black Midge.
Body: Black quill.
Hackle: Black hen.
Wings: Speckled hackle points dyed olive, projecting on each side of body.
Season: Warm days of summer.
No. 13. Badger Hackle.
Body: Black silk, very short.
Hackle: Badger, black centre, white tips.
Season: Warm, calm weather when trout are " smutting."
No. 14. Corncrake Sedge.
Body: Broad yellow quill.
Hackle. Red hen hackle, continued down the body.
Wings: Corncrake, pent-shaped.
Season: Afternoon and early evening in July.
No. 15. Cinnamon Sedge.
Body: Hare-lug.
Hackle: Dark brown hen.
Wings: Brown hen, pent-shaped.
Season: June and July evenings.
No. 16. Grannom or Greentail.
Body: light hare-lug.
Hackle: Pale red, hen's hackle.
Wings: Inside of soft part of hen-pheasant wing, pent-shaped.
Butt: Peacock, green.
Season: May.
No. 17. Black Sedge.
Body: Broad black quill over silk.
Hackle: Black hen.
Wings: Black hen, pent shaped.
Season: August.
No. 18. Needle-Brown.
Body: Brown quill.
Hackle: Natural brown cock.
Season: From August onwards.
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