WELSH RIVERS 313 



THE DOVEY OR DEIFI 



No. i. The Welshman's Fairy. Tag, gold tinsel and orange 

 floss; tail, a topping, and gallina stained pink; butt, black 

 ostrich ; body, red wool ; silver tinsel ; hackle, claret and 

 golden-olive laid together and wound on simultaneously ;* 

 pale blue dun hackle (unstained) at shoulders ; wing, strips of 

 mallard, brown mottled turkey, bastard bustard, gallina, pale 

 dirty pink swan ; blue macaw ribs ; black head. 



No. 2. The Captain. This is a jointed fly. Tag, gold 

 thread ; tail, a topping and tippet ; butt, black ostrich ; body, 

 in four joints. The first joint is composed one half of. dark 

 orange, and the other of dark red floss, just below the joint 

 a few turns of fine gold thread, above this a small cock of the 

 rock feather put on as a hackle. The next joint is bright 

 yellow and dark red floss, gold thread, and cock of the rock 

 hackle as before. The third and fourth joints are of yellow and 

 black floss, gold thread, and cock of the rock hackle as before, 

 at. the shoulders blue jay ; wing, brown mottled turkey with 

 brown mallard over it, blue macaw ribs and black head. 



Add to these two flies, " Powell's Fancy " (see the Bush, 

 p. 309) and " The Baker," page 252, dressed smallish, and 

 there are four killers for the Dovey. Hooks from 6 to 10, or 

 even smaller in low water. Patterns from Farlow's. 



THE CONWAY 



The following patterns were sent to me by C. Blackwall, 

 Esq., the secretary of the Conway Club ; and the patterns 

 may, therefore, be thoroughly relied on. They are all capital 

 general flies, and would kill on many rivers : 



No. i. Tag, silver thread and medium blue floss ; tail, 

 sprigs of yellow swan, wood duck, and Indian jay (the blue 

 out of the wing) ; butt, black ostrich ; body, one-third yellow 

 floss, the rest olive-green with a few strands of yellow pig's 

 wool, silver tinsel ; lightish claret hackle, blue jay at shoulder ; 

 wing, two jungle cock (medium length), sprigs of tippet, wood 

 duck (plenty), a strip of red swan or red macaw, golden 

 pheasant's tail (plenty), blue macaw ribs ; black head. 



No. 2. The Blackwall. Tag, as before ; tail, a topping and 

 a small blue chatterer feather ; butt, black ostrich ; body, half 

 medium orange floss, half redder orange mohair, broadish silver 



* This will be found easiest to do either by stripping one side of the 

 hackle, or by preparing the hackles and laying one within the other. F. F. 



