A GENERAL SUMMER-FLY. 93 



One of the best general early morning and late 

 evening flies I know of. If dressed on a No. 4. 

 hook, it would kill well in the Shannon, the 

 Tweed, or the Spey, at high water. The wing 

 is a good specimen of the " mixed " wing. Tied 

 on a No. 8. hook, it will be an excellent grilse- 

 fly — one of the very best that can be used of 

 dull days in the rivers of Sutherlandshire. 



No. 12. Body, grey donkey's fur, from the butt 

 of the ear, or hedgehog's fur, or grey pig's wool, 

 to be ribbed and tipped with silver tinsel ; gold 

 colour tag, and a tip of darker shade under the 

 shoulder ; tail, a few sprigs of mallard and golden 

 pheasant neck-feather; wings, mixed fibres of 

 golden pheasant tail and breast-feathers, mallard 

 and brown turkey ; feelers, blue macaw ; and blue 

 or blood-red head. Hook, No. 4. 



This fly is called " the jackass," and is a cele- 

 brated killer at Lismore, on the Blackwater, co. 

 Cork. I look upon it as a general fly. If dressed 

 on No. 6. and 7. hooks, it will prove a general 

 summer-fly on all our best rivers, particularly 

 those of the south of Ireland. It is a good sample 

 of a fly, neither too sombre-hued, nor too gaudy. 

 It may be slightly varied with long blood-red tag, 

 and a tip or joint of fur of deeper blood-red colour 

 under the shoulder. 



