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and often trying it. Mr. Haynes has solved the mystery for me. 

 Finding the root of a fly is more interesting to me than finding 

 Greek roots used to be. 



All the above patterns are from Haynes, as are those for the 

 Kerry Blackwater which follow. 



THE KERRY BLACKWATER 



The same character of flies prevails here. 



No. i is like the Lee No. i, without the yellow hackle at 

 the shoulder, and with a little claret mohair as a tag to counter- 

 poise, and a strip of red parrot in the wing. 



No. 2 is an Orange Anthony (Lee No. 2) without the king- 

 fisher. 



No. 3 is No. 2 in the Cork Blackwater. The colours running 

 blue, grey in the middle, and claret, with a yellow hackle on 

 the shoulder, and blue jay over it ; wing, tippet, hen pheasant, 

 red and green parrot, and brown mallard over. 



No. 4 is a dark Blue Doctor for the lower two-thirds of its 

 body, the upper third being an orange floss ; blue jay hackle, 

 and orange at shoulder ; wing, tippet and mallard ; blue 

 macaw ribs, and black head. 



No. 5 is a plain Yellow Anthony, with a bit of apple-green 

 floss in the tag. 



No. 6. Silver tinsel tag ; tail, mallard, tippet, and lavender 

 macaw ; butt, black ostrich ; body, medium orange floss, fine 

 gold thread ; greenish-olive hackle, blue jay on shoulder ; 

 wing, peacock, red parrot, yellow swan, and brown mallard 

 over ; blue macaw ribs ; black head. These flies vary from 

 7 or 8 to 10 or n. 



THE SUIR 



To obtain patterns of the Suir and Nore, I wrote to Mr. 

 Brady, and he most kindly forwarded me the following 

 patterns, with a note from a resident on the river, Mr. Staples, 

 an extract from which note I append. 



" I have not fished either Nore or Suir for two years. There 

 has not been a fish up the Nore past Kilkenny this year, after 

 all our trouble and expense, owing to the perfect system of 

 poaching established on that unfortunate river ; I have, there- 

 fore, only a few old patterns to send you. The two flies marked, 

 ' My own pattern best kind,' I found to beat every other fly on 



