996 LOUGH MKI.VI.V 



LODGE MELVIN. 



On this fine lough, which is some seven miles in length, 

 and contains salmon, grilse, chair, ferox, gillaroo, and other 

 * bastes 1 in abundance, and is not far from the Erne, the flies 

 mad are as sober as those of the Erne are often gaudy. 



I also asked Kogan for a new pattern or two for Lough 

 Melvin, and he sends the following. 



No. 1. Tag and tail as in No. 2 of Rogan's Erne flies. 

 No but; body, two-thirds a dirty yellowish olive pig's 

 wool, hard to describe ; one-third the dirty red claret of 

 No. 2, roughish ; no hackle except at shoulder, which is 

 claret with a dirty dull orange over it ; silver thread ; 

 wing, two tippet feathers, a few sprigs of wood-duck and 

 middling dark mallard over. 



No. 2. Tag and tail as before, but without the little 

 bit of Indian crow ; body, the same dirty yellow olive, 

 one shade more yellow ; hackle, the same colour all the 

 way up, with a dirty claret at shoulder ; wing, as before, 

 without the wood-duck, and with blue macaw ribs. 



No. 3. Tag, as before; tail, a topping; body, black 

 pig's wool ; black hackle all the way up, and running with 

 it with (one side stripped so as to be very sparse) a dirty 

 yellowish red hackle, dirty claret at shoulder, with a 

 similar yellowish orange over; silver thread; wing, as 

 before, with rather more tippet in the middle, and a sprig 

 or two of dark wood-duck. Hooks Nos. 7 and 8. I am afraid 

 that, do what I can, the colours in all these flies will be 

 found most difficult to hit off by description, and that for 

 the dubbing anglers will hav.e to write to Rogan. 



No. 4. The O'Donoghue. This is a prime favourite ; 

 I got it from the fishermen on the lake when fishing it 

 several years ago. Tag, gold tinsel and orange floss ; tail, 

 a topping ; but, black ostrich ; body, roughish, olive- 



