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on this and the neighbouring lakes will be more 

 apposite than of the scenery around. Those 

 most in vogue are generally large lake-flies, and 

 nothing is more justly a favourite than one 

 made with grouse or guinea-hen feathers for 

 wings, and a claret or rather blood-red body 

 roughly tied. Smooth bodies are not, as a rule, 

 in favour here ; but two of the best fish of our 

 visit a brace of white trout of a couple of 

 pounds each were taken with a small-sized 

 lake-fly, with grouse wings and a red-silk body 

 with a twist of gold. The more gaudy flies 

 which find favour at Galway are not of much 

 use, unless "the shades of night are falling 

 fast." An excellent fly on the smaller Scotch 

 lakes familiar, doubtless, to all who are ac- 

 quainted with the north, namely, with a 

 rough scarlet body and wings of the blackcock, 

 was not tried; but, if others had failed, it 

 would have been interesting to observe how 

 this fly served on the waters of Connemara. 

 It is very often the case that local people find 

 one or two flies kill well, and then assume that 

 any other fly is useless. As a matter of fact, 

 though the local favourites are no doubt very 

 good (for there is nothing like experience in 



