88 THE GREAT SHANNON- FLY. 



depth during the late spring, summer, and early 

 autumn months. 



PLATE II. 

 No. 4. The Shannon. — Body, half light 

 orange, half blue silk, to be ribbed with broad 

 silver tinsel and gold twist; a lightish blue 

 hackle, stripped on one side, over body ; blue jay 

 under shoulder ; head, seal's fur dyed yellow ; tag, 

 orange silk ; above it another tag of fur of deeper 

 orange hue ; tail, large tojiping ; wings, ten or 

 twelve largest sized toppings, sprigs of the leading 

 tail-feather of the golden pheasant, and four long 

 feelers of blue and yellow macaw. Hook, No. 2. 

 This is a magnificent fly of the largest size that 

 need be used in any river. It is the standard 

 Shannon-fly in the spring, and whenever the 

 water of that famous river is high. If dressed 

 on a No. 6. hook, it will kill in the summer and 

 autumn. The wing may be beneficially varied 

 by the addition of a large white hackle-feather 

 dyed party-coloured, red, yellow, and blue. The 

 wings of all large Shannon-flies should be chiefly 

 composed of long golden pheasant toppings. Some 

 of them, descriptions of which I shall give under 

 the general title of " Shannon- flies," will kill in 

 the Tweed, the Tay, and the Shin. 



