124 SKETCH OF THE RIVER SPEY. 



Wings, brown mallard, black and white spotted 

 turkey, and golden pheasant tail-feathers, blue 

 macaw, teal, and light turkey tail-feather, dyed 

 yellow, and bustard ; feelers, blue and yellow ma- 

 caw, black head, and topping for tail. Hook, 

 No. 5 6 and 7. A good summer and autumn 

 fly at low water. 



The months of August and September, if the 

 Spey be full, will require flies dressed on No. 3 

 and 4. hooks, with gaudy bodies and gaudily 

 mixed wings. The bodies should consist of joints 

 of yellow, orange, and red floss silk or pig's wool, 

 with a red or fiery-brown hackle over all. In the 

 summer and autumn months, flies should be ribbed 

 with gold tinsel, but with silver in the spring 

 months. 



El^c ^^t^ mxis it^ Crifiutarit^ tic^rrilsptf. 

 Mr. Dunbar of Loch-Inver has kindly sent me 

 a sketch of the river Spey, executed so much in 

 accordance with my taste that I'll transcribe it in 

 his own words : — " The Spey," he writes, " is 

 perhaps the very best salmon-angling river in 

 Scotland, but it is not a pleasant river to fish, for. 

 two reasons ; first, you must use a very strong 

 and long rod, at least twenty feet in length ; so 

 that, working this all day, becomes very tiresome ; 



