316 BOOK ON ANGLING 



THE DEE 



The accompanying flies were sent to me by Mr. Townshend, 

 of Wrexham, who obtained them for me from Colonel T., a 

 noted angler on the Dee. The Dee flies are very sober and plain. 



No. i. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, a small tippet feather ; body, 

 bronze peacock herl, gold tinsel ; brown-red hackle at shoulder ; 

 wing, a mixture of brown turkey and thin peacock herl fibres 

 from near the eye of the feather ; head, peacock herl. 



No. 2. No tail ; same body, coch y bondu hackle ; wing, 

 two short hackles, crimson-red with a lake tinge, set on either 

 side, with a bunch of long fibres from a cock pheasant's tail 

 between them ; peacock herl head. 



No. 3. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, sprigs of tippet ; body, as 

 before ; dark olive-brown hackle at shoulder ; wing, bunch 

 of fibres from rump of speckled brown hen with fibres of tippet 

 on either side ; head, as before. 



No. 4. Tail, a scrap of teal slightly stained olive ; body, 

 medium brown mohair, silver thread ; coch y bondu hackle 

 at shoulder ; wing, mottled peacock, with a few fibres of the 

 same stained yellow for ribs ; head, peacock's herl. Hooks 

 from 5 to 8. 



THE ESK (BORDER) 



Mr. Rowell, the tackle-maker of Carlisle, whose name I have 

 already favourably mentioned in connection with the Annan, 

 also sends me patterns for the Esk and the Eden, and the 

 commendation bestowed upon his Annan flies may be also 

 extended to these. 



No. i. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, gold pheasant saddle sprigs ; 

 body, a medium purple floss ; silver tinsel, tolerably stout ; 

 hackle, coch y bondu ; under it, and tied on at the shoulder, 

 is a wad of bright orange crewel well picked out ; wing, some 

 teal sprigs with light dun turkey over split into sprigs. 



No. 2. Much the same fly, only the body is bright medium 

 (inclining to darkish) blue, with a few sprigs of blue, and one or 

 two of bright yellow in the wing. All the rest as before. 



No. 3. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, some tippet sprigs ; body, 

 golden yellow floss, with orange crewel picked out at shoulder ; 

 hackle, coch y bondu with an olive tinge ; silver tinsel ; wing, 

 two peacock slips brownish at butt. Hooks 6 and 7. 



THE EDEN 



Is one of the finest of our English salmon rivers, and if properly 



