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have kept sifting them out until I have now but four 

 kinds. If I use but two flies on my leader, my upper 

 one is a red body, white wing, and white hackle and 

 a gold tinsel stripe. My second is called the 

 " grizzly king." It has a green body, and a mottled 

 wing of a mallard or red-head. It is called by fly- 

 makers the under wing ; it has a grizzly hackle and 

 red ibis tail. My two other flies are called the 

 " Governor Alvord " and " Seth Green." The wing 

 of the former is made of two colored feathers, cinna- 

 mon and drab. The cinnamon is used for the under 

 part of the wing. The body is made of peacock 

 hackle and a red ibis tail. The "Seth Green" is 

 made as follows : The body is green with a large 

 yellow stripe. The hackle red, from the red rooster. 

 The wing is made of feathers out of a bittern or 

 woodcock, or any cinnamon-color wing. I do not 

 cover the body of my flies with hackle ; the hackle 

 is all put on at the head of the fly. 



The gang of hooks is made as follows : Use No. 

 8 " O'Shaughnessy hooks;" solder two sets of three 

 hooks each, back to back, in the shape of a grapnel, 

 and tie them on a single gut, having the first set on 

 the end and the next from one to two inches above, 

 and a short distance above, tie a single lip-hook. 

 The gangs should be made to fit the size of the 

 minnows used ; attach the minnow to the gang by 

 hooking the upper or lip-hook through both lips, 

 which closes the mouth ; insert one of the lower 

 hooks in the side near the tail, and one of the middle 

 set, in the side. The minnow should have a very 

 slight curve when on the gang, which will give it a 

 slow rotary motion when drawn through the water. 



