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medium orange floss, the rest of darkish blue pig's wool ; 

 broad silver tinsel ; medium blue hackle, blue jay at 

 shoulder ; wing, a darkish blue hackle, slice of brick-red 

 swan and darkish grey speckled turnkey ; black head. 



No. 2. Tag, silver thread and ruby floss ; tail, a top- 

 ping ; but, black ostrich ; body, palish yellow wool ; 

 medium claret hackle, a light orange hackle (inclining 

 rather to pale brick-red) at shoulder; wing, brown 

 speckled turkey, peacock, a few sprigs of florican and 

 grey mallard, slightly brown at tips, over 11 ; black head. 



No. 3. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, a topping ; but, black 

 ostrich ; body, bright canary-coloured floss ; gold tinsel ; 

 hackle, the same colour, blue jay on shoulder; wing, mixed 

 sprigs of bustard, tippet, wood-duck, gallina, topping over ; 

 blue macaw ribs ; black head. In the early spring, a 

 Butcher (see p. 338) dressed smallish is first rate fly for 

 these rivers. Hooks from Nos. 5 to 9. 



SEA-TROUT FLIES. 



* Well, Mr. Francis,' methinks I hear the reader remark, 

 ' you have given us a rare long list of salmon flies, but 

 what about sea-trout flies ? ' 



Sea-trout flies are a sort of connecting link between 

 common trout and salmon flies ; and first I will give you 

 a list of flies used more or less on the Tweed, where they 

 are termed whitling flies, and it shall go hard but some of 

 these flies shall kill sea trout wherever they are found to 

 rise in Scotland. The sizes of sea-trout flies run from the 

 No. 1 2 hook in the salmon scale down to about three sizes 

 smaller. 



No. 1. Of all the sea-trout flies I know of this is about 

 the best. It will kill almost anywhere ; either in Scotland, 

 Ireland, or England. Tail, a short tuft of orange-yellow 



