256 SALMON AND TROUT. 



only brown trout or only white trout are in question, the 

 quantity may be again reduced by a quarter, at least. They 

 are all ' hackle flies 'i.e. dressed without wings. 



SEA-TROUT FLIES. 



1. ' Claret.' Body, 'pinky' or 'reddy' claret seal's fur, ribbed with fine 

 silver oval and two or three turns of same under tail ; head hackle, black 

 cock's ; tail, fibres of golden pheasant topping and golden pheasant ' tippet ' 

 (neck feather) mixed. Seal's fur to be well ' picked out ' between the ' ribbings. ' 

 This is very important in order to make the colour show up properly. 



[This is the best tail fly for lake sea-trout fishing that I know of, and in 

 Connemara and elsewhere I have had splendid sport with it in all weathers 

 and waters in July and August. No. 7 (new scale) is a good medium size for 

 Connemara and several other lakes ; whilst for Waterville, fdr instance, No. 6 

 will be found a more killing size on the whole. Indeed' at Waterville a No. 5 

 is not infrequently used in fine bright weather. On some lakes, per contra, 

 such as Loch Maree, the fly, and especially the stretcher, may be even several 

 sizes larger in very rough weather and full water. These observations as to 

 size hold good with all sea-trout flies. 



I have never found the Claret do much good as a dropper ; its place un- 

 doubtedly is as the tail fly.] 



The following is a good variation of the above : 



Body, claret seal's fur ribbed with fine silver oval, two or three turns of 

 same at tip ; head hackle, brown mallard feather, wound on as an ordinary 

 hackle ; shoulder hackle magenta ; tail, very short golden pheasant topping. 



2. ' Black and Silver.' Body (slender rather than thick, vide cut), black 

 silk, ribbed thickly with broadish silver oval, two or three turns of the same 

 under tail : hackle, black cock's ; tail, mixed fibres of golden pheasant topping 

 and ' tippet ' (neck feathers of golden pheasant). 



BLACK AND SILVER. 



[This fly I have almost always used myself as a dropper.] 

 The following is also a very good fly and may be tried as a change for the 

 dropper or as a third fly : 



Body, orange seal's-fur ribbed with fine gold oval ; head hackle, grouse ; 



