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with a little dark red picked out at the shoulder ; silver 

 tinsel ; hackle, black ; wing, dark jay ; and some tippet 

 sprigs over. All these flies have black heads, and are 

 dressed of large size. 



I had some patterns sent me specially for Erris rivers 

 and lakes, and more particularly for Maxwell's river the 

 Ballycroy a very famous white trout river, in which my 

 friend Mr. S., who rented it, as I have before stated, for 

 some years, killed magnificent baskets of white trout, 

 many of them running up often to five or six pounds' 

 weight. Four of these flies are very much alike; the 

 bodies vary a little in the shade of orange ; the tags are 

 all silver tinsel and ruby floss ; the tails a sprig or two of 

 golden pheasant tail ; they all have the somewhat unusual 

 appendage to a white trout fly, of a black ostrich but. 

 The bodies are pig's wool, more or less of a red or yellow 

 orange, with gold thread. One of them is half orange and 

 half black. The hackles are black ; wings of two, brown 

 mallard ; in the other two a bit of peacock's wing or hen 

 pheasant's is thrown in. The fifth fly is a very pretty 

 one ; no tail or tag ; body lake floss, then orange floss 

 and then lake again ; hackle, a yellow olive ; black hackle 

 at shoulder, amidst which on the breast a fibre or two of 

 dark blue and claret mohair is tied in ; wing, landrail and 

 brown mallard, with a small topping over. I should think 

 this fly would be in request. It is a very pretty pattern 

 the body smacks a little of the Moy. They all have 

 black heads, and are of medium size. 



Here are half-a-dozen for Lough Currane (or Water- 

 ville). They were sent me by Haynes of Cork, whose 

 small flies are perfection. 



No. 1. Tag, a few turns of gold thread; tail, a few 

 sprigs of tippet ; body, dark sandy red (red-hair red), gold 

 thread. Hackle, red when held up to the light golden 

 olive ; wing, a darkish bit of bustard. Largish size. 



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