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THE DON. 



The Don debouches a very short distance from the Dee, 

 but no two rivers can well be more dissimilar ; the Dee 

 running through the wildest moorland and mountain 

 scenery, and having no trout in it worth notice, and the 

 Don running through beautiful pastoral and well tilled 

 districts, and looking more like a Hampshire than a High- 

 land salmon stream, and containing perhaps as fine trout 

 as any river in Scotland. Yet the salmon seem to like 

 very similar flies ; a small reduction in point of size being 

 made. The Don flies are not so large as those for the 

 Aberdeen Dee, though after the same fashion. Indeed, 

 smallish Dee flies are fair sized Don flies ; and, as on the 

 Dee, the Gled Wings and Tartans are standard flies on 

 the Don, and are varied by using brown or grey mallard 

 wings. Beyond these are 



No. 1. Tag, silver tinsel; tail, a few fibres of gold 

 pheasant's rump and a small tuft of yellow crewel ; but 

 black ostrich her! ; body, black pig's wool : silver twist ; 

 hackle, black with blue jay on shoulder ; wings, gled or 

 dun turkey strips. Size, 7 to 10. 



No. 2. Tag, tail, and but as before ;. body, about two- 

 fifths dark red and three-fifths dark blue pig; hackle 

 (only at shoulder) light blue, and ever it a short grouse 

 hackle ; wings, strips of the red of dun turkey feather 

 speckled with black. Size, 7 to 10, 



No. 3. Tag, gold tinsel; tail, a tuft of orange crewel; 

 body, two-thirds orange and one-third black pig ; narrow 

 gold tinsel ; hackle (only half way down), a large coch-y- 

 bondu hackle, with well marked centre ; wings, strips of 

 grey mallard with brownish points. Size, 9 to 11. 



No. 4. Tail, a few fibres of gold pheasant's rump ; body, 

 half yellow and half medium red pig's wool ; gold twist 

 hackle (only half way down), a small black heron's hackle 



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