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treated, would be one of the most productive. It still produces 

 a great quantity of salmon, and affords a good deal of sport, 

 though the spoon is found more deadly even than the fly in it. 

 Mr. Rowell supplies these patterns, as in the last river. 



No. i I call The Chimney Sweep ; it is a very striking fly, as 

 it is the only thoroughly black fly I ever saw, but that it is a 

 favourite on the Eden Mr. Rowell vouches, as he says it will 

 kill when none of the others will, and I certainly shall try it 

 elsewhere. The tail is a single topping ; the tinsel medium 

 silver ; but the body, hackle, and wings are all black. The 

 hackle is longish in fibre, but is dressed only from the shoulder, 

 not down the body. The wing, two slips of swan as black as a 

 coal. It should be a first-rate night fly. 



No. 2. Tag, silver tinsel ; tail, a topping ; body, lightish 

 orange floss. Silver tinsel ; hackle, black, and dressed only at 

 shoulder as before ; under wing, two slips of teal, upper two 

 slips of dark dun (cinnamon) turkey. In default, gled or even 

 Monal pheasant will do. 



No. 3. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, a topping ; body, lightish blue 

 floss ; silver tinsel ; hackle dressed as before of darkish 

 medium blue, and under it a wad of yellow crewel picked out 

 at shoulder ; under wing, some teal, upper mixed light peacock, 

 gold pheasant tail and dark dun turkey, with a few sprigs of 

 claret and yellow swan. 



No. 4. Tag, gold tinsel, tail, some tippet ; body, ruby floss ; 

 silver tinsel ; a wad of darkish medium red pig's wool tied in 

 and picked out at the shoulder, with a coch y bondu hackle over 

 it ; under wing, gold pheasant rump, upper mixed black (not 

 very bright), gold pheasant tail, cock pheasant tail, sprigs of 

 blue, yellow, red, and green. 



No. 5. Tag, gold tinsel and some orange-yellow crewel ; tail, 

 the tip of a medium claret hackle ; body, floss herl, a very 

 difficult colour to describe. It is a dark pink-red, not so bright 

 as ruby, but a sort of faded ruby ; silver tinsel ; lightish claret 

 hackle half-way down the body ; under wing, a tippet, rather 

 conspicuous, and a saddle feather over (rather thinly) ; sprigs 

 of teal, gold pheasant tail, bright blue and red. All the bodies 

 of these flies are dressed rather sparely, and the hooks are 

 about 6 and 7. 



THE TAWE AND TORRIDGE 



These three patterns are from Farlow's : 



No. i. Tag, silver tinsel ; tail, a topping and red and blue 



