122 SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



Lord Baltimore. — Body, orange ; hackle, tail and wings, 

 black, with small upper wings of jungle-cock. 



Professor Mayer and I, being natives of Baltimore, and 

 knowing that black and yellow formed a good and taking 

 combination in an artificial fly, each designed, unknown to 

 the other, a fly to embody these colors ; and as they are 

 tlie heraldic colors of the State oF Maryland, and were the 

 heraldic colors of Lord Baltimore, Professor Mayer aptly 

 named his trout fly, "Lord Baltimore;" Avhile I designated 

 my Black Bass fly. the "Oriole,"' from the Baltimore oriole, 

 or hanging bird, which beautiful songster was named in 

 honor of Lord Baltimore, as its colors were the same as his 

 own — black and orange. 



I have been experimenting with a fly, of my own design- 

 ing, for several seasons, that is as yet a puzzle to me. 

 Sometimes it is the most killing fly I ever cast, the Bass 

 rising to it madly Avlien they would notice no other fly ; but 

 on other occasions it is not at all successful, the Bass re- 

 fusing it altogether, alw.ays taking the other fly in the cast. 

 I have not yet determined the most suitable conditions and 

 occasions for using it, though I am inclined to think it best 

 on cloudy days. It is constructed entirely of metallic 

 colors, and I give its formiila in order that any one feeling 

 an interest in it may try it : 



Golden Dustman. — Body, bronze (peacock lierl) ; hackle, 

 golden yellow ; wings, bronze (wild turkey) ; tail, fibers 

 from the crest of golden pheasant. 



Abbey & Imbrie have patented and manufacture what 

 they call the " Fluttering Fly.'' It is made in the same 

 patterns and in the same manner as the conventional fly, 

 except that the hook is reversed ; that is, the tail of the fly 

 is at the end of the shank, while the head is near the bend 



