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cock feathers over ; body, claret, blue, and orange pig's 

 wool ; three turns of broad silver twist; dark claret hackle 

 at shoulder, light claret to the tail ; small kingfisher 

 feather on each shoulder ; tail topping, and wood-duck : 

 and he adds, ' I've killed lots of fish with this fly.' 



The Baker is another good general fly ; dressed small 

 it is a standard fly on the Dovey. Tag, gold twist and 

 lightish blue floss ; tail, a topping ; but, black herl ; body, 

 three turns of golden-coloured floss, dark orange, light 

 blue, and red pig's wool ; broadish gold tinsel ; medium red 

 claret hackle, gallina at shoulder, with light blue over it ; 

 under wing, two tippet feathers, sprigs of gold pheasant 

 tail, bustard, peacock, red, bright green, and blue and 

 yellow sprigs of swan over ; blue macaw ribs ; black head. 



Having given the butcher and baker, the trades will 

 not be complete without 



The Candlestick J/a/?r. This is a fly to light the 

 salmon to bed with. I dressed one as a whim some years 

 since, and sent it to a friend, who reported favourably of 

 it to me ; since then it has done useful service. The body, 

 for the lower half, is black silk ; the upper, black pig's 

 wool, very bushy towards the shoulder, and picked out 

 at the breast; hackle, golden-olive, with claret at the 

 shoulder ; tinsel, broad silver ; tail, scarlet ibis and wood- 

 duck ; wing, five or six toppings with double jungle- cock 

 on either side. At dusk this fly will often show the salmon 

 the way upstairs, when others will fail. 



The Childers. This is another excellent general fly. 

 It is a slaughterer on the Thurso, the Naver, the Helms- 

 dale, and the Brora. Tag, gold twist and golden coloured 

 floss ; tail, a topping, some teal, and tippet ; body, yellow, 

 orange, and dark red (somewhat of a lake) pig's wool ; 

 broad gold tinsel ; hackle, dark red claret and light blue 

 on the shoulder; wing, a good lump of whitish tipped 

 dark turkey, and strips of bustard, and gold pheasant tail 



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