104 SALMON FISHING. 



that is, of Salmon-flies the reader is referred to 

 the general introductory observations on fly-fish- 

 ing. The table appended gives the formulary for 

 the three flies there referred to : 



No alteration whatever is required in the dress- 

 ing, from the smallest Grilse to the largest Shannon 

 flies, except that the hooks, hackles, and wings 

 must be proportionally larger or smaller. 



The speciality of these flies it will be seen con- 

 sists in the arrangement of hackles, which are, in 

 fact, double, embracing a " shoulder" hackle, and 

 what may perhaps be best described as a " head 

 hackle ;" the body of the fly is made a trifle 

 shorter to admit of the additional set which are 

 put on between the wing feathers and the loop, in 

 the place commonly occupied by that foolish ap- 

 pendage, a twist of ostrich herl, which generally 

 goes before anything else about the fly, and is use- 

 less whilst it lasts. The hackles commonly used 

 in Salmon-flies are so small, and necessarily so 

 much compressed and pushed out of position by 

 the wings, that when in the water they present 

 very little appearance of movement or life in the 

 water. 



The extra, or " head hackle'' should be about the 

 same length in the fibre as the body of the fly from 



