340 THE CLARET AND THE GUINEA HEN. 



over it, mixed with slices of blue, pale red, orange, and 

 yellow swan ; head, black. 



The foregoing flies are dressed of various sizes to suit 

 the water. 



The Claret. 1 Tag, gold twist and gold floss ; tail, a 

 topping, and slips of blue and red macaw ; but, black 

 ostrich ; body, three turns of orange flo?s, the rest medium 

 reddish claret pig's wool ; stoutish gold thread ; a light 

 reddish claret hackle, commencing about half-way down 

 the body, with a couple of turns of black hackle at 

 shoulder ; under wing, a tippet feather, and over it mixed 

 fibres of gold pheasant tail, turkey, bustard, and peacock, 

 fibres of green and red parrot thrown in, and one topping 

 over all ; ribs, blue macaw, black head. This fly may be 

 varied by altering the shade of the claret, which may be 

 from light red to dark purple claret, the wing being sobered 

 down as the fly is made darker. It is a very useful fly, 

 and a general favourite. It may be made of almost any 

 size, from 4 to 10 or 11 even. It is good for sea trout. 



The Guinea Hen (see the adjoining Plate, fig. 3). 

 This is a specimen of a trimmed fly ; i.e. the hackle is 

 trimmed or clipped on the breast, whilst it is left long and 

 full on the back in order to form a part of the wing. In 

 the illustration it might with advantage be trimmed a 

 little closer on the breast. Tag, orange floss ; tail, a top- 

 ping ; body, medium blue floss ; hackle, guinea hen (small 

 speckled), laid on pretty thick and trimmed off on the 

 breast: silver twist; wings, gold pheasant tail, and tippet, 



1 I call this s claret. I hardly know what would be the proper term. 

 Some might call it a fiery brown, bnt having the fate of Martin Kelly before 

 me, I eschew Fiery Browns. To my view of the GISC there are two clarets, 

 one in which the red tinge, and the other in which the blue or purple pre- 

 dominate. Some perhaps would describe this a plum colour, though to my 

 mind it is hardly blue enough for plum. I shall endeavour to distinguish 

 them thus. 



