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the water is low will kill salmon. It was given to me by 

 a gentleman who had lived for years at Bangor, and who 

 had fished all the streams in that part incessantly. I 

 killed baskets of white trout with it, and although the 

 river was so low that there had not been a salmon killed 

 for weeks, on the first morning that I was there we went 

 out on the Owenmore, played and lost one salmon and 

 killed another of eleven pounds. 



No. 1. Tail, a few sprigs of blue jay ; body, two turns 

 of medium blue floss, the rest black pig's wool mingled 

 with a few fibres of lightish brown or dirty grey fur to 

 give the body a sort of rusty appearance ; silver thread ; 

 black hackle ; wing, plain, from the jay's wing ; choose a 

 bit which is dark towards the but. Two sizes. 



No. 2. Tag, golden-yellow floss ; tail, sprigs of red and 

 green parrot, and golden pheasant tippet; body, black 

 pig's wool ; silver thread ; black hackle, with two turns of 

 jay at shoulder ; wing, mixed, of brown and grey mallard, 

 fibres of golden pheasant, with four or five sprigs of blue 

 macaw. Size, full. With this fly I once killed nearly a 

 hundredweight of white trout in one day on the Doohullah 

 lakes. It is a great Oonnemara favourite. 



No. 3. Tail, a small topping ; body, one turn of ruby 

 floss, the rest of black floss ; silv er thread ; black hackle 

 only one-third down ; wing, a darkish bit from a jay's 

 wing. Size small. Good in the Newport river, and most 

 of the rivers and lakes of that neighbourhood. 



No. 4. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, a sprig or two of brown 

 mallard ; body, dark blue wool well picked out ; red 

 hackle only at shoulder; wing, from jay's wing-feather, 

 with a light brownish tinge preferred. Size small. 



No. 5. Tag, silver thread ; tail, grey mallard ; body, 

 apple-green floss ; red hackle ; silver thread ; wing, mot- 

 tled woodcock. The last two flies are good on the Lennan 



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