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the rest, which is of the same colour as the last fly, picked 

 out to help hackle, which is of a lighter shade then in 

 the last fly, more of a dirty orange, also I believe, got 

 from crottle. These crottie colours are most difficult to 

 describe, and unless the tier got the colours from Kogan 

 I should fear he would find it difficult to hit them. Two 

 turns of medium blue hackle at shoulder, with claret 

 over ; wing like the last, only with three toppings instead 

 of one ; head black. Hooks of two first No. 6, of the last 

 No. 5. These are the latest conceits of the Erne salmon 

 and their caterers. 



I also add two well-tried favourites, which I should 

 never be without on the Erne. With No. 4 I have at long 

 intervals killed many good fish on the Erne, and I know 

 it to be a good colour. 



No. 4. Tag, silver twist, medium blue floss ; tail, a top- 

 ping ; but, black ostrich ; body three turns of light orange 

 floss, the rest of light purple (lake 1 ) ; silver twist ; hackle, 

 same colour as body, blue jay at shoulder; wing, as in 

 No. 2, the gold pheasant tail perhaps predominating more ; 

 blue ribs. 



No. 5. The #./.. This fly will be found noticed in 

 the letter of a friend under 'Owenmore and Bally croy.' 

 Tag, silver tinsel ; tail, a topping and some tippet ; body, 

 orange-yellow floss ; gold tinsel ; coch-y-bondu hackle ; a 

 few turns of longish black heron at the shoulder give it a 

 spider-like look ; wing, brown mallard, two or three fibres 

 of blue macaw ; blue jay hackled over the wing. A capital 

 killer. 



The size of the hooks for the above flies is from Nos. 5 

 to 8. 



1 This is a difficult colour to describe, as it is neither claret, nor red, nor 

 purple, nor puce, nor mulberry, nor mauve ; it is more the old-fashioned 

 colour called ' lake.' 



