THE SALMON. 17 



SUMMER FLY. 



Wings, the brown mottled feather of a turkey- 

 cock's wing, with a few of the green strands selected 

 from the eye of a peacock's tail feather; body, 

 yellow silk and gold twist, with a deep blood-red 

 hackle for legs. 



If the artist, however, wishes to astonish the 

 natives, he will not fail to carry with him a couple 

 of dozen of O'Shaugnessy's Limerick, or Cox or 

 Kelly's (of Dublin) Irish manufacture : these being 

 known to kill fish, when the others will not stir a fin. 

 He will be thus, ad utrumque paratus. Bainbridge, in 

 his clever treatise on fly fishing, mentions a fly, to 

 the excellency of which we can fully bear testi- 

 mony, on three very capital salmon rivers ; viz. 

 the Dee, the Teivi, and the Ogmore. It is made 

 as follows: Wings, tips of the guinea-fowl's fea- 

 ther (not stripped) ; blood-red hackle, blood-red 

 ostrich feather, and bright yellow hackle. 



No person having any pretensions to be called a 

 salmon fisher, can stand in need of instructions from 

 a book, as to the method of managing his tackle, and 

 the other minutiae of the art. We shall, however, 

 subjoin a poetical description of the mode of playing 

 and killing a salmon, which is so excellent, that it 

 seems a perfect condensation of all that has ever 

 been said or written on the subject : 



should you lure 



From his dark haunt, beneath the tangled roots 

 Of pendant trees, the monarch of the brook, 

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