392 The Trouts of America 



Adirondack. — Tag, yellow silk ; tail, a few 

 fibres of black hackle or black seal fur ; body, 

 reddish brown mohair ; legs, orange hackle ; 

 wings, white, with jungle cock shoulders. 



Nearly all the foregoing flies may be varied 

 and made a little more elaborate by adding 

 shoulders of jungle cock, as in the last two. 

 Now we come to the fly that is tied any way and 

 any how. No two dealers or professionals dress 

 it alike. The Silver Doctor is used everywhere on 

 all streams, and is, I might say, about the most 

 popular fly in use. 



For ordinary trout fishing the Silver Doctor is 

 not dressed so elaborately as for bass or salmon. 

 The one for trout is tied as follows : — 



Tag, gold-colored silk floss ribbed with silver 

 twist ; tail, a few fibres of golden pheasant tippet ; 

 body, red, and ribbed quite closely with silver tin- 

 sel (the body is sometimes of silver tinsel, ribbed 

 with red silk or wool) ; legs, blue hackle ; wings, 

 strips of blue, yellow, barred wood duck, dark 

 turkey, bustard, scarlet ibis, and white; head, red 

 wool. In tying this fly for large trout or bass 

 add a few legs of guinea over the blue hackle. 



Ashy. — Body, orange ; legs, a peculiar ashy 

 shade of hackle wound the whole length of body. 



