2i4 THE BRITISH ANGLER'S LEXICON. 



gaudy one may prove serviceable. When starting on a 

 salmon angling excursion consult a well-known fly dresser 

 as to the flies suitable for the particular district about to 

 be visited, and should the angler meet with another fisher 

 who is having good sport, let him procure from him a 

 pattern and send it to his fly dresser to have a few made 

 exactly the same. It is of no use getting too many, as 

 what will succeed well one week may not be of any use 

 the next. The flies should be dressed on the " Dublin- 

 Limerick " shaped hooks, and see that they are well tem- 

 pered and perfect, as it is most annoying, after a prolonged 

 tussle with a good and game fish, to lose him at the last, 

 by either the hook drawing out or breaking off short. 



JOCK SCOTT tag, silver twist and golden floss ; tail, one topping and 

 one Indian crow feather ; body, in two joints, gold-coloured floss the 

 lowest, and black floss the upper : from the joint are tied two or three 

 toucan points, and over the butts of them, at the joint, two turns of 

 black ostrich herl ; silver twist and a black hackle over the joint, and 

 speckled gallina at shoulder ; wing, mixed, a white turkey's slip in 

 the middle, fibres of bustard, pintail, teal, brown mallard, and yellow, 

 red, and green parrot ; one topping over all ; blue macaw horns ; 

 cheeks, kingfisher or blue chatterer ; sides, jungle fowl. 



BLACK AND GOLD tag, silver twist ; one topping and one Indian crow, 

 with black ostrich herl butt ; two joints, lowermost one gold tinsel 

 ribbed with silver twist, black silk ribbed with silver on upper joint ; 

 two Indian crow feathers springing from butt of ostrich herl between 

 joints ; hackle, claret over the black, golden olive and jay hackle over 

 at shoulder ; wing, same as Jock Scott, but with jungle cock cheeks. 

 This fly is considered by many to be an improvement on Jock Scott. 



SILVER DOCTOR tag, silver twist and yellow floss ; tail, golden pheasant 

 topping ; butt, red wool ; body, flat silver tinsel, ribbed with fine silver 

 oval ; light blue hackle and gallina at shoulder ; wings, golden pheasant 

 tail, bustard, tippet, pintail, wood duck, yellow, red, and blue swan ; 

 jungle cock cheeks, mallard topping over ; blue macaw horns ; head, 

 red wool. 



GOLDEN PARSON tag, silver tinsel and mauve floss ; tail, two toppings, a 

 few sprigs of ruff feather and a kingfisher ; body, two turns of golden 

 floss silk, then golden pig's wool, merging into orange ; golden orange 



