30 SALMON FLIES 



Grubs are the easiest patterns to tie, not 

 being possessed of those troublesome adjuncts, 

 the wings. The beginner would be well 

 advised to make his first attempts on this class 

 of fly, as the results will be more encouraging 

 to him, and at the same time nothing will 

 be lost from the point of view of educating 

 the fingers in the proper manipulation of silk, 

 fur, tinsel, and feather. 



V. Irish Patterns* (see Plate VIII.) are 

 merely general patterns, possessing as a rule 

 rather more wing and more variety of colour 

 in the wing than those coming under the first 

 group of this classification. They have a very 

 common feature in the shape of Mallard strips 

 partly veiling the mixed- wing underneath, and 

 very few of them have the adornment of a 

 topping over the wing.f Though they are 

 not as brilliant as the usual Scotch type of fly, 



* This, together with the following class, is somewhat 

 supplementary to the four preceding ones which may be 

 regarded as the four natural groups into which it is possible 

 to divide salmon flies and are added more for the benefit 

 of the angler, as they have a very definite sphere of 

 influence in practice. 



I Where toppings do occur, however, there is no stint 

 of them e.g., Orange Parson, a type of pattern which 

 claims origin from the north-west of Ireland. 



