RIVER SHANNON FLIES. 253 



averse to salmon hooks that are very large and 

 heavy at the bend and barb. The largest sized 

 hooks should never be wider in the bend than 

 No. 3 or 4 hooks, with shanks as long as the old 

 hooks marked No. 1 and 2 by me, and by Phillips 

 4 and 5. 



No. 2. Body, half orange, half black floss-silk, 

 over all of which a plain ginger hackle, and silver 

 tinsel and gold twist ; blue silk tag, tipped with 

 silver; blue jay at shoulder, and blue fur head. 

 Wings and hook as before. 



No. 3. Pomona-green floss-silk body over 

 which blood-red hackle, stripped on one side; 

 orange tag, jay under shoulder, and blue head. 

 Wings and hook as before. 



No. 4. Black floss-silk body, silver tinsel and 

 lemon-colour hackle over it; orange tag, dark 

 head, and wings and hook as before. 



No. 5. Body, all blue or purple floss-silk, over 

 which a blue hackle ; yellow head, and wings and 

 hook as before. 



I now come to three much smaller flies for the 

 river Shannon. They are used in the summer 

 and autumn months, chiefly for grilse, or, as they 

 are called in Ireland, ' salmon peal.' ^ 



At the head of them stands the ' Goldfinch ' 

 that beauty standing first in the frontispiece, and 

 described at the end of the list of salmon flies. 

 Then comes 



