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coloured floss silk, ribbed over with gold tinsel ; a golden 

 pheasant crest feather for tail ; and a wing of good brown 

 mallard feather, well freckled. This is laid over a golden 

 pheasant tippet feather. Another, is an orange and black 

 floss silk body ; or the same colours in mohair, with a 

 good furnace hackle ribbed down the body, and the same 

 wings as before, is a certain killer of salmon or sewin on 

 most of the rivers. The same colours, but varying the 

 body with deep-coloured orange floss silk, ribbed over 

 with gold tinsel or twist, will often prove a very attractive 

 fly for sea trout and salmon. A very useful fly for sewin 

 is a large blue dun, with a body of water-rat fur ribbed 

 over with silver tinsel ; tail, a golden pheasant topping ; 

 wings from a blue jay wing feather, set on upright ; a blue 

 dun cock's hackle, wrapped on at the shoulder, for legs. 

 Another good general fly is a body made of black pig's 

 wool ribbed with silver tinsel ; tail, three strands of a 

 dark grizzle blue dun cock's hackle ; a galinea feather tied 

 in at the shoulder, and wrapped half way down the body ; 

 wing of dark brown turkey tail feather. This fly will kill 

 well in the evening till dark. I would also mention the 

 " Jock Scott " is a favourite with the salmon, and many 

 others too numerous to mention. But with the few flies 

 I have enumerated, made in various sizes, the angler for 

 salmon or sewin will be certain of success, if the fish 

 are at all on the rise, and it is little or no use attempting 

 to fish with the fly when the water is rising or discoloured, 

 but my Devil Killers, gold and silver, will then prove deadly, 

 especially so when the fish are coming up fresh from the 

 sea. These migratory fish, which give such noble sport, 



