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and can affirm that teal wing kills six to one of the light 

 jay. It is true to nature, for I have often caught the 

 natural fly, of which it is a good representation. My No. 3 

 is excellent, especially in cold rough weather and rain. 

 I use it two sizes larger on Loch Awe, and find it most 

 persuasive. No. 4 is a very useful fly, and I sometimes 

 use it with a brighter and lighter yellow body with gold 

 twist. It is admirable on fine clear water. No. 5 is 

 more killing in rough, but not cold weather ; and No. 6 

 is local, only suited to some lochs high up on the moors. 



I don't know whether the woodcock-wing feather or 

 the teal's is the more killing. I can only say that with 

 these flies I can reckon on six dozen per diem, and have 

 killed as many as ten dozen in half a day. I wish, when 

 you have an opportunity, you would give them a trial. 



Very faithfully yours, 



H. AlNSLIE. 



The following is the dressing of each of these flies : 



1. Body, medium green crewel, fine gold thread ; hackle, a rusty 

 coch-y-bondu, with very little red showing ; teal wing; tail, two fibrea 

 of the golden pheasant sword feather. [I did well on Loch Awe with 

 this. F. F.] 



2. Body, dark red crewel ; black hackle ; teal wing ; a turn of gold 

 tinsel at tail ; tail, fibres of gold pheasant ruff. 



3. Body, dirty reddish brown (about the colour of tolerably used 

 leather), well ribbed up with gold thread; hackle, a brownish red, 

 with a little black at the head ; tail, two fibres of sword feather ; 

 wing, woodcock's wing. 



4. Body, a lightish yellow, rather thinly laid on ; hackle, a sandy 

 red ; tail, two fibres of red parrot ; a turn of gold tinsel at tail ; wing, 

 woodcock. [These did well on several lochs. F. R] 



5. Body, lower half lightish yellow, upper scarlet, ribbed with 

 gold thread ; hackle, a brown red with dark centre ; tail, two fibres 

 of sword feather ; wing, woodcock. 



6. Body, bright medium blue, well ribbed with fine gold tinsel ; 

 tail, two fibres of red hackle ; dreased buzz, with the small blue 

 barred feather of the jay's wing, with most fibres on the wing, those 



