;*w ROGAN'S PATTERN- 



The tags vary a little, some being puce, some orange, ancf 

 some yellow silk. The bodies vary slightly from yellow 

 pig's wool to yellow with little or more orange. One of 

 them has a brown body, but I do not much like it. The 

 hackles run from golden to golden-olive and orange. It 

 will thus be seen that a Parson may be as varied as his 

 creeds are : he may be a gorgeous ritualist or a plain 

 parson Adams. 



I sent lately to Mike Rogan of Ballyshannon, one of 

 the prettiest fly-tiers in Ireland, to lend me a few patterns 

 from the Erne, and he sent the following. 



No. 1. Tag, silver twist and darkish blue floss; tail, a 

 topping and sprigs of tippet and wood-duck with a small 

 Indian crow feather at stump ; body, medium orange floss ; 

 hackle, a shade or two redder orange, with a turn or two of 

 medium blue at shoulder, and claret over it ; tinsel 

 doubled silver thread ; wing, a few tippet and sword feather 

 fibres with one or two of dark wood-duck. Over them 

 gold pheasant tail. Two toppings and blue macaw ribs, 

 kingfisher at the cheeks, black head. A very pretty, and 

 I am sure effective fly. 



No. 2. Tag, silver twist, and orange floss; tail, as 

 before ; body, one turn of yellowish orange wool ; the 

 rest of a dirty reddish claret. I hardly know how to describe 

 this colour. It is got by crottle dye, I believe. Hackle, 

 the same colour all the way up, sprigs of tippet tied in 

 pretty full at breast, and a medium blue hackle over ; silver 

 thread and gold tinsel together ; wing, two of the longest 

 Indian crow feathers, tippet sprigs over, with a shred or 

 two of dark wood-duck, gold pheasant tail over that, 

 two strips of wood-duck next with a topping between, 

 kingfisher cheeks. Blue macaw ribs and black head. 



No. 3. Tag, and tail as before, with the addition of 

 one turn of medium blue floss in the tag. Body, pig's 

 wool, one turn of dirty yellow, two of orange, merging into 



