124 Wet- Fly Fishing 



with a good basket of trout, averaging two 

 to the pound. 



The weather there on May Day, 1877, 

 reminded me of mid- winter, snow and frost 

 prevailing, and the wind almost enough to 

 produce frost-bitten fingers. The sunk 

 fly was therefore the only chance. A few 

 flies of my own tying, did so well that I 

 must give their dressing. No. 1 is a 

 hackled fly, and made thus : body, yellow 

 tying silk, waxed. The glossy neck-feather 

 of the cock starling, wound round twice, 

 formed the hackle ; and immediately under 

 this I added a very tiny ball of green pea- 

 cock herl. (2) Another good fly had the 

 same body and hackle, but no peacock herl, 

 and a single upright wing (tied in a neat 

 bunch) taken from the quill-feather of the 

 starling, the inside of the feather being 

 kept outside carefully. (3) Another fly 

 was dark quill body, black hen hackle, and 

 the inside of a starling's wing for wing. 

 (4) Greenwell's Glory I am never with- 

 out, so you may be sure it was in constant 

 use. 



On the Deveron I have made a higher 

 aggregate than in the last-named river, but 

 never have I loved any stream more than 

 I did the river Tuminel. Probably my 



