THE BLACK WATER. 415 



silver tinsel. Then comes the hackle ; one of the large 

 blue herons like that shown in the Tartan in Plate XII. 

 It is dressed all up the fly, and stands out from the head 

 half an inch longer than the hook ; a short dark hackle as 

 a ruff, and the wings put on last of all ; a pair of jungle- 

 cock reaching to the tag, and lying alongside of the hook, 

 so that you cannot see the body from the side ; black 

 head. 



THE CORK BLACKWATER ( MALLOW ). 



The Anthony one size smaller will do for the Black- 

 water. The Blue Doctor, dressed with medium floss body, 

 blue jay hackle and an orange-yellow hackle at shoulder, 

 with a sober wing of tippet and green parrot sprigs and 

 brown mallard over, and black head, does well. The 

 Orange and Grouse (see Moy flies) with a sober tail and 

 wing of gold pheasant tail, brown mallard, green and red 

 parrot sprigs, and minus the puce floss, with a blue jay 

 hackle at shoulder is also a favourite. 



The following three flies I got with others from Haynes 

 of Patrick Street, Cork. His flies are beautifully tied, and 

 show all the marks of a first-rate artist. 



No. 1. Tag, silver tinsel and orange floss; tail, black 

 partridge, tippet and mallard sprigs ; but, black ostrich ; 

 body, grey fur (same colour as in the Lee flies) for one- 

 third of the body, thd remaining two-thirds of medium 

 yellowish-green mohair ; hackles to match, silver-grey 

 cuckoo dun (clipped) over the grey, and green of the 

 same shade over the green, orange hackle at shoulder; 

 narrow gold tinsel ; wing slips from the streaked feather 

 of the gold pheasant's tail, brown mallard over, sprigs of 

 red and green parrot ; blue macaw ribs ; black head. 



No. 2, Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, a topping and some tip- 

 pet ; but, black ostrich ; body, darkish blue, claret and grey 



