SALMON FISHING. IO/ 



only of being in themselves strong and glowing, 

 but of harmonizing with the body colours of each 

 of the three flies a harmony which the hackles 

 complete. As the harmonies of sound depend 

 upon the combination of certain natural " intervals" 

 furnished by the harmonic chord, so in forming 

 harmonies of colour the natural or prismatic 

 arrangement, as displayed by the solar spectrum 

 of the optician, must in every case be taken as 

 the basis. Thus in the gold-fly the prevailing 

 colour of which is intended to be a rich golden 

 orange red, orange, and yellow are the three 

 predominant colours orange (the gold of metal- 

 lurgists) in the prismatic arrangement passing* into 

 red on the one side and yellow on the other. In 

 44 the Rainbow" the same model is closely followed, 

 the whole of the prismatic colours being combined 

 in the body and shoulder hackle in their proper 

 sequence. In No. 3, which is a silver -bodied fly, 

 no harmony of colour is strictly speaking possible 

 silver (or white brightened) not being a colour 

 but rather a negation of it. In a more general 

 sense, however, both white and black harmonize 

 with all the other colours. 



It is seldom I may say never, except in large 

 waters like the Shannon that two Salmon-flies, 



