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THE OWENMORE AND BALLYCROY R1VEFS. 



Patterns from Hearns. These two rivers run very near 

 to each other. The Ballycroy is the river described by 

 Maxwell in his ' Wild Sports of the West.' 



No. i . Tag, silver tinsel ; tail, a small topping, a slip 

 of black partridge, a kingfisher, and an Indian crow 

 breast feather ; but, black ostrich ; body, three turns of 

 orange floss, the rest of black floss ; silver tinsel ; hackle, 

 gallina stained yellow, clipped at breast, not on the back, 

 tippet feather tied on as hackle at breast, blue jay over ; 

 wing, a red hackle and a yellow hackle, a red rump 

 feather of gold pheasant, sprigs of tippet, slips of gold 

 pheasant tail and peacock, a large blue chatterer feather 

 over all en croupe or on the back ; Indian crow at the 

 cheeks ; blue macaw ribs ; black head. This fly can be 

 varied by using lake floss instead of black. 



No. 2. Tag, silver twist ; tail, a topping ; but, one turn 

 of orange floss ; body, black floss in five joints, at each 

 joint two turns of fine silver thread, then from the back 

 comes the mane, and then for the two middle joints, side 

 by side with the silver thread, is taken a turn of orange 

 floss, so that the termination of the three lowest joints is 

 one turn of orange floss ; the two lowest manes are a dirty 

 clarety red, the next two are a mixture of yellow, olive, 

 and light claret ; the hackle is at the shoulder only, and 

 is brown olive, and over it a little blue jay ; the wing, a 

 slip of tippet, over it slips of mallard and of peacock ; 

 blue macaw ribs ; and black head. 



No. 3 is The Claret, already often referred to as to 

 the body and hackle, save that there is no orange floss at 

 the lower end ; substitute a little blue jay at shoulder for 

 black hackle, and make the wings of fine dark mallard, 

 with blue rits, and you have a fly that will kill not only 



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