Sandy Moorgame; or, Dark Dun

Hook:		14-16
Thread:		Dark brown
Body:		Silk buttonhole twist – Coats and Clarke’s dark chocolate brown 56-B, size D
Hackle:		Reddish-brown grouse back hackle
		T. E. Pritt notes that the Sandy Moorgame, no. 43, “is a very useful fly from May to the end of July, and it is not to be neglected in a brown water clearing after a flood. It is probably identical with the dark dun of Theakston.” Pritt’s dressing calls for “WINGS.-Hackled with a dark, reddish-brown feather from the back of a Grouse. BODY.-Dark brown silk. HEAD.-Ditto.” In Michael Theakston’s List of Natural Flies (1843), a “dun” is not a mayfly, but rather a sedge or caddis; the Dark Dun n0. 50 is a caddis hatching in the late spring or early summer“winged with a dark feather from the Moorcock; brown silk for body; legged with a dark brown hen hackle.”