450 ERRIS SEA TROUT. 



and at Gweedore, and generally on the north-west of 

 Donegal. Largish size. 



No. 6. Tag, light orange floss ; tail, golden pheasant 

 tippet sprigs ; body, medium blue pig's wool picked out 

 slightly ; black hackle (only at shoulder) ; silver thread ; 

 wing, brown mallard, small speckled gallina, a few shreds 

 of red parrot and blue macaw. A capital Connemara 

 pattern. I have done very well with it at Ballynahinch. 

 Medium size. 



No. 7. Tag, silver tinsel and light orange floss ; tail, 

 blue jay and yellow macaw; body, lightish blue pig's 

 wool ; hackle the same colour ; silver thread ; wing, jay's 

 wing a lightish feather. Connemara. Medium size. 



No. 8. Tag, as before ; tail, jay, and tippet ; body, 

 bright pea-green floss, silver tinsel ; red hackle ; wing as 

 before. Connemara. Medium size. 



.No. 9. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, golden pheasant tippet 

 sprigs ; body, light orange floss ; wing and hackle, a 

 grouse hackle left full and long on back and clipped on 

 the breast. Connemara. Medium size. 



With Nos. 2 and 7 I killed three salmon and rose many 

 more on Lough Inagh, when last there (not a fish had 

 been killed on it for weeks), besides a dish of white trout. 



Four patterns from Nicholson of Galway : 



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

 and blue and green sprigs; body, blue wool, rough; 

 hackle, red ; wing, jay's wing. 



No. 2. Tag, as before; tail, as before; body, yellow 

 wool ; rough silver thread ; wing, jay's wing darkish 

 feather. 



No. 3. Tag and tail as before; body, two-thirds light 

 claret wool, one-third at shoulder dirty yellow ; black 

 hackle ; wing, dark jay with some tippet over. 



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

 and sword feather with yellow sprigs ; body, black wool 



