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floss ; tail, sprigs of tippet and green parrot ; but, black 

 ostrich ; the body is composed of that golden green beetle's 

 wing and is very showy and gorgeous, ribbed with gold 

 thread and a reddish claret hackle all up ; jay at 

 shoulder ; wing, sprigs of tippet and pale green swan (a 

 little); a large bit of claret-red swan, a few gold phea- 

 sant tail sprigs and slices of brown mallard over. Hook 

 No. 6. 



I also had three patterns from Mr. Kamsbottom of 

 Clithero who is the great fly-tying authority on the river. 

 The first hook was his Parson already described, then- 

 No. 4. The Cinnamon. Tail, two hackle points of a 

 red, something between lake and scarlet pig's wool ; body 

 of the same colour ; roughish hackle at shoulder, also of 

 the same colour ; broadish silver tinsel ; wing, three hackles 

 of the same red in the middle, and a bunch of cinnamon 

 red, same colour as jungle-cock hackles (indeed I am not 

 certain that they are not jungles) over. 



No. 5. The Winesop Black. Mr. Ramsbottom says this 

 is a ' real old Kibble favourite.' The tail is a few shreds 

 of orange mohair, with two or three red ones thrown in. 

 The body rather a bright lake floss ; silver tinsel moderate ; 

 hackle, darkish medium blue all up, same at shoulder, but 

 under it a little mohair (same colour as tail) is hackled on ; 

 wing, two slips of mottled silver grey turkey or peacock. 

 Hook No. 6. 



THE TTNE. 



The Tyne at one time gave promise of being one of 

 the best salmon rod fisheries in the kingdom, a friend 

 of the author's having had some splendid sport in it ; but 

 the nets multiplied and grew, and combined, so that the 

 river has nearly returned again to its wonted state. Mr. 

 Cook, of Hexham, has sent me three patterns which he 



