312 A BOOK ON ANGLING 



No. i. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, two slips of red parrot and 

 pale blue macaw ; body, dirty yellow-orange crewel ; reddish 

 orange hackle (full), gold tinsel ; bunch of peacock herl for 

 wing ; head of the same. 



No. 2. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, a topping and two long sprigs 

 of red macaw ; body, medium brown crewel, narrow gold tinsel ; 

 hackle, red-orange with a black centre ; wing, brown speckled 

 turkey ; head, peacock herl. This fly is varied with a tail as 

 in No. i ; body, dirty brown orange ; and hackle, dark grizzled 

 blue dun. 



No. 3. Tail and tag as in No. i ; body, medium orange floss, 

 gold tinsel ; hackle, lemon-yellow, with red lake at shoulder ; 

 wing, brown speckled turkey ; head, black ostrich. 



No. 4. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, red parrot ; body, dirty yellow, 

 inclining to orange wool, gold tinsel ; hackle, lemon-yellow, 

 scarlet hackle at shoulder ; wing, a bunch of peacock herl ; 

 head, the samey r hooks, r about?6'or~7. 



THE WYE 



The Usk flies do well also on the Wye ; but I add some flies 

 which I obtained of the keeper at Builth when there, which I 

 found first-rate killers. 



No. i. Tag, silver twist ; tail, a topping, a bit of wood-duck 

 and scarlet ibis ; body rather full, of bright yellow golden floss ; 

 the hackle longish and full, and of a peculiar shade of olive- 

 yellow, which is obtained by staining a medium blue dun a 

 pale yellow : this gives it an olive-greenish yellow tint of a very 

 taking look ; wing two good clearly marked bittern hackles ; 

 the best bitterns' hackles to use are those of a yellowish tint, 

 and on which the ribbed markings are most distinct ; one 

 topping over. (Plate XIX, Fig. 3.) 



No. 2 is a fly of somewhat similar kind, save that the body 

 is of a lemon-yellow floss ; and the hackle a fine blue dun 

 hackle, long and full, the bluest that can be got, fine gold tinsel ; 

 the wing and tail as before ; body, fattish ; hooks, about 

 No. 6 or 7 and smaller for summer. 



No. 3 is dressed after the fashion of No. i, the body, however, 

 being of '"the same^colour as the flesh of a cooked salmon ; the 

 hackle, blue dun, long and full ; wing and tail as in No. i. 'fl 



Add "to the above the Dhoon^fly, there called the Canary. 

 See page 270 for the dressing of it, 



