THI: 



coloured floss, half yellow and half black mohair ; hackle, 

 black (over the black mohair only), at the shoulder dark i>li 

 blue (sparely) with blue jay over it ; wing, a couple of 

 strips of tippet, gold pheasant tail, brown mallard, gallina ; 

 yellow, red, and orange sprigs, a topping over all ; blue 

 macaw ribs ; black head. 



No. 3. Tail, a topping and mallard; body, medium 

 blue do., hackle ; gold tinsel; galliim hackle at shoulder, 

 blue jay over it; wing, strips of bustard, dark and liiclit 

 turkey, and some peacock herls, and a topping over alL 

 Hooks, 5 and 6 for spring, 7 and 8 for sum: 



TIIK FINPIIOBN. 



The Findhorn is a very tine and lovely river, and the 

 pools and streams perfection. At one time there was no 

 river in Scotland tliat gave such sport to the rod, but nets 

 near the mouth, and incessant netting of the lower pools, 

 thin the fish and injure the sport greatly. 



It can be fished from the shore, but some of the 

 casts require deepish wading. It is a long river, with 

 mountainous sources, and heavy rains may be going on 

 back in the mountains, which the angler has no idea of, 

 and the river will come down sometimes suddenly with a 

 bore or a wave six feet high. The banks are high and 

 rocky, and often inaccessible, and woe be to the angler if 

 he is caught between them. The late Sir A. P. Gordon 

 Gumming showed me one spot where he had had a very 

 narrow escape. He had walked across a part of the river 

 bed over which a little stream ran not higher than his 

 ankles, to a cast about 100 yards up the river. He was 

 fishing the cast, when suddenly he fancied the water was 

 thickening in colour. It was a brilliant day, without a 

 sign of rain. He looked over his shoulder up the river, 

 and about 150 or 200 yards off he saw a big red wave, 



