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No. 4. Tag, silver tinsel and dark blue floss ; tail, a 

 topping ; body, dirty orange pig's wool ; golden olive 

 hackle, jay at shoulder ; gold thread ; wing and head 

 as before, gallina instead of brown mallard. 



No. 5. Tag, silver tinsel and orange floss ; tail, tippet 

 and topping ; body, two turns of dark blue, and one of 

 orange floss ; the rest, dark silver grey fur, with cuckoo 

 dun hackle over it, and vermilion red with slight orange 

 tinge at shoulder ; wing and head as before, taking out 

 gold pheasant tail and putting back brown mallard 

 instead. 



No. 6. Tag, silver tinsel ; tail, a topping ; but, emerald 

 peacock herl ; body, medium orange ; silver thread ; 

 hackle, grizzled silver grey all up, jay at shoulder ; wing 

 and head as before. All these wings are spare, and the 

 red sprigs show well. Hooks Nos. 7 and 8. 



THE CARAGH AND LOUGH CURRANE (WATERVILLfi). 



The upper part of the Caragh is rather dull and heavy. 

 The lower part, however, improves and gives some good 

 pools and streams. It yields fair sport, but would give 

 very fine sport if the fish had but fair play ; but what 

 with the weir, the nets, and the crosslines, they are woefully 

 harried, and beyond this the alteration in the netting 

 season of late years takes most of the few fish left. 

 Lough Currane is a fine sheet of water. The river, how- 

 ever, is short. 



The same flies kill both on Lough Currane and the 

 'aragh, and they are for the most part of much the same 

 3haracter as those for the Lee and Blackwater; greys, 

 1 lues, and clarets running more or less through them. 



No. 1 is like No. 1 in the Lee flies, save that it has 



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