TWEED SALMON FLIES 257 



toucan feather ; body, orange, red, and black pig's wool, the 

 red being about two-fifths and the black three-fifths of the 

 body ; broadish silver tinsel ; hackle, a coch y bondu hackle, 

 stained a dark orange-red, the black part being left on for the 

 shoulders, and over this a lavender hackle ; wing, two strips of 

 pintail. Any size from 6 to n. 



The small edition of this, used in the summer, is called the 

 Teal Wing. 



White Wing. This fly I have never seen save on the Tweed. 

 It is a capital fly for the evening there, however, and kills well. 

 Tail, one topping, and a bit of tippet ; body, one turn of yellow, 

 one of orange, two of claret, and the rest of black pig's wool ; 

 broad silver tinsel ; black hackle from tail to head ; light blue 

 hackle on shoulders ; two slips of white swan for wings. Size; 



4>*5, or 6- 



The White Tip. This fly is like the last in every "particular, 

 save that there is no orange in the body, and the wings are two 

 slips of the feather from a wild duck's wing with white tip and 

 butt, and black in the middle. Size from 5 to 8. 



The Toppy. A noted old Tweed fly, and a perfect speci- 

 men of the simplest form of salmon fly. Tag, ruby floss ; tail, 

 a tuft of yellow mohair ; body, black pig's wool ; fine silver 

 tinsel ; two turns of red hackle next the tail, black hackle 

 for the rest of the fly ; wings, two strips of dark turkey tipped 

 with white ; head, red mohair. Size from 5 to 8. 



Kate. This is a comparatively new fly on the Tweed, 

 but it kills well there. I have not seen it tried elsewhere, 

 but I think the pattern is so likely that I see no reason why 

 it should not do well on other waters. Tag, silver tinsel and 

 light yellow floss ; tail, a topping with short kingfisher feather ; 

 body, ruby floss, two or three turns, and darkish red pig's wool 

 picked out at breast ; orange hackle at shoulder, silver twist ; 

 light mixed wing, tippet sprigs, black partridge (or pintail, if 

 the fibres be not long enough), bustard, wood duck, mallard, 

 blue, red, green and yellow sprigs, one topping over all, jungle 

 cock at shoulders, blue macaw, ribs ;'.; black head. Size from 

 about 7 to ii. 



The Blue Doctor (p. 249)^3 also a favourite fly on the Tweed ; 

 so is the Silver Doctor, but they vary the dressing, giving it a 

 black head and butt instead of red ; a silver-grey cuckoo dun 

 hackle instead of blue, with teal at the shoulder.* The wing is 



* Tweed fishers have reverted to the red head and butt, and the blue 

 hackle. ED. 



