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attractiveness, and it certainly is no slight addition in the 

 trouble of trying. The above are patterns I bought of Hackett, 

 of Cork, when fishing the rivers in that neighbourhood some 

 years since. Hooks from 5 or 6 to 9. 



THE BLACKWATER (MALLOW) 



Nos. I, 2, and 3 of the Lee flies one size smaller will do for 

 the Blackwater. The Blue Doctor, dressed with medium floss 

 body, blue jay hackle and an orange-yellow hackle at shoulder, 

 with a sober wing of tippet and green parrot sprigs and brown 

 mallard over, and black head, does well. The Orange and 

 Grouse (see Moy flies) with a sober tail and wing of gold 

 pheasant tail, brown mallard, green and red parrot sprigs, and 

 minus the puce floss, with a blue jay hackle at shoulder, is also 

 a favourite. 



The following three flies I got with others lately from 

 Haynes, of Patrick Street, Cork. His flies are beautifully tied, 

 and show all the marks of a first-rate artist. 



No. i. Tag, silver tinsel and orange floss ; tail, black 

 partridge, tippet and mallard sprigs ; butt, black ostrich ; 

 body grey fur (same colour as in the Lee flies) for one-third of 

 the body, the remaining two-thirds of medium yellowish-green 

 mohair ; hackles to match, silver-grey cuckoo dun (clipped) 

 over the grey, and green of the same shade over the green, 

 orange hackle at shoulder ; narrow gold tinsel ; wing slips 

 from the streaked feather of the gold pheasant's tail, brown 

 mallard over, sprigs of red and green parrot ; blue macaw 

 ribs ; black head. 



No. 2. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, a topping, and some tippet ; 

 butt, black ostrich ; body, darkish blue, claret and grey fur, 

 with blue claret and grey hackles to match, the lower (or blue 

 one) clipped, yellow hackle at shoulder, with a turn or so of 

 black hackle over it ; wing, sprigs of bustard, brown turkey, 

 tippet, green parrot, and brown mallard over ; black head. 



No. 3. Tag, silver, tinsel and orange floss; tail, sprigs of 

 tippet ; mallard, green mohair, and gallina stained pale blue ; 

 body, apple-green floss, fine gold twist, blue jay hackle all up, 

 orange hackle on shoulder ; wing, gold pheasant tail (streaked), 

 bustard, green parrot, mallard over ; black head. 



The orange and grouse and apple-green may be dressed 

 smaller for summer wear. 



