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size, and chosen according to tlie colour and height of the 

 water, state of the weather, and time of year, will be quite 

 as successful as any others. Major Traherne, one of the 

 most experienced salmon-fishers in the United Kingdom, gives, 

 in the Badminton Library, a very short list of flies, "with 

 one or other of which " — to use his own words — " from the 

 beginning to the end of the season, and in any part of the 

 United Kingdom, salmon are to be killed, if at all." The list 

 consists of the Jock Scott, Durham Ranger, Childers, Butcher, 

 Popham, Thunder and Lightning, Silver Grey, Lion, Captain, 

 Black Jay, Claret Jay, Dirty Orange, Fiery Brown, and the 

 Spring Grub. The last is a peculiar form of wingless fly, 

 which is gradually coming into vogue : I have copied Mr. G. M. 

 Kelson's dressing,* as given in the Badminton Library. I 

 have not thought it necessary to give the dressings of all the 

 flies mentioned, as any good tackle-maker can supply them.f 

 For several of the dressings given I am indebted to Mr. Farlow, 

 who tied the flies from which the illustrations were made. 



Casting and Working the Ply. — Casting a salmon-fly is 

 really very similar to casting a trout-fly, but the point of the 

 rod should follow rather a bolder curve, and more time should 

 be given between the backward and forward cast. The Spey or 

 switch cast is very useful in salmon-fishing, and so occasionally 

 is the horizontal cast.J On this matter, pages 32-36 should be 



* Tag, silver twist and light blue silk. Tail, scarlet ibis and blue macaw, in 

 married strips. Body in two sections, having three hackles (the shortest at the 

 tag, the longest at the head). Butt, a furnace hackle, dyed orange. The first half 

 of the body, yellow silk, ribbed with black chenille. In the centre is placed a 

 natural blue hackle. The second half of the body, black silk, ribbed with silver 

 tinsel ; and the shoulder or head hackles, a natural coch-y-bondu, and a gallina, 

 dyed dark orange. 



t Reliable dressers of salmon and trout flies in Scotland are : W. Robertson, 

 Glasgow ; Anderson, Edinburgh ; Garden or Benn, Aberdeen ; Malloch, Perth ; 

 Forrest or Redpath, Kelso ; Crockatt, Stirling ; W. Graham, Canonbie, for the 

 Border Esk. For Ireland, Captain Dunne ("Hi Regan") kindly gives me the 

 following list : In Dublin, Kelly, of O'Connell Street, and Flint, of Merchants' 

 Quay. In Cork, Haynes, of Patrick Street. In Limerick, Nestor, George Street. 

 In Kerry, Mrs. M'Carthy, High Street, Killarney. In Galway, N. Browne. For 

 Mayo, M. Hearns, of Ballina. In Donegal, for rivers (N.W.) and L. Melvin, Erne, 

 &c., Rogan, of Ballyshannon. For the N.E. (Bann, Bush, Neagh, &c.), Dan O'Fee, 

 of Coleraine. For Antrim, Miss M. Fleming, of the Vow, Bendoorg, Bally money. 

 For England, the leading London tackle-makers are unsurpassed ; but I may men- 

 tion Strong, of Carlisle ; Miss Ratlifife, St. Leonard's-on-Sea ; Walbran, of Leeds ; 

 Hardy Bros., Alnwick ; and for Devonshire rivers, John Truman, of Chudleigh. 



t To fish very wide pools, anglers sometimes get the gillie to walk out behind 

 them with the fly, and, when the necessary length of line is extended, switch the 

 fly forward. A long line can be got out by this method. 



