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Dark Snipe and Purple. 



Hackled with a feather from the outside of a Snipe's wing on a 

 body of waxed purple silk. Hook No. 1. 



Poult Bloa. 



Hackled with a feather from under wing of young Grouse on a 

 body of light yellow silk. Hook No. 0. 



And as Trout Flies, the two Dotterels, the Blue Hawk 

 (Merlin), the Little Needle, Dark Snipe and Purple, Poult Bloa and 

 Waterhen Bloa, are prime favourites with all expert anglers. I 

 have also found the Derbyshire Bumbles to kill well in the Yore, 

 particularly in heavy and high coloured waters. In the " Remarks " 

 T. H. B., on page 37, says " there are no Grayling above 

 Aysgarth," but I venture to say this was an error. I have often 

 had conversation on the subject with veteran anglers who could 

 remember catching Grayling between Aysgarth and Hawes at a 

 much earlier date. How they got above the falls of Aysgarth, 

 whether introduced by human agency or carried in the ova state by 

 aquatic birds, I have no conclusive evidence. A story is told, and 

 it has been handed down from father to son, to account for their 

 presence, viz., " they with some Pike, Rudd, and Bream were 

 brought, some 120 years ago, to Lake Semmerwater by visitors. 

 The Pike died off, but the Rudd and Bream increased and multiplied 

 in the tarn, out of which the Grayling found their way into the 

 Bain and from the Bain into the Yore at Bainbridge. James Blades 

 and other upper Wensleydale Anglers do not question the correct- 

 ness of this story, but I think it should be taken cum grano salis. 

 At the period mentioned live fish could not be transferred any 

 distance as easily as they can now, and the job then would be one 



