144 ANGLING. 



With these flies in his book, suited in size and brilliance 

 to the water, the angler need not fear to encounter any 

 river. It will be seen, too, that with slight modifications 

 of dressing, which I have suggested, perhaps double the 

 number of patterns could be made. I will now give a 

 brief description of the dressing of each fly. 



THE BUTCHER is, perhaps, one of the most general 

 favourites with slight variations. It is dressed in many 

 ways. The body is made of rough pig's wool. Beginning 

 at the tail we have about one-fifth of the whole body 

 composed of claret, then the same quantity of medium 

 blue ; ditto ditto red, and the rest of the body of dark 

 blue ; a reddish claret hackle with gallina at the shoulder ; 

 fine gold tinsel ; an under wing of golden pheasant's ruff 

 and rump, and a mixed upper wing of mallard, bustard, 

 wood duck, dyed swan, Ac., Ac. : a topping for the tail ; 

 and the same may be added to the wing if you wish 

 to make it extra gay. This fly may be used of any size. 



THE JOCK SCOTT has grown greatly in favour of late 

 yean. In Scotland there is hardly any river which it will 

 not kill on. The tail, one topping and a short Indian 

 crow feather ; the body is made of floss silk in two 

 joints the tail joint of golden yellow, the upper one of 

 black. At the joint are tied in two or three small toucan 

 points, with two turns of black ostrich harl ; silver twist 

 over the black joints, gold wire over the yellow ; a black 

 hackle with gallina over it ; a mixed wing of white tip 

 turkey, pintail, bustard, mallard, and dyed swan, with one 

 topping ; a short kingfisher feather on either shoulder ; 

 and blue macaw points. This fly ranges from a largish 

 medium size downwards to sea trout size. 



THE BLUE DOCTOB, another capital fly. Tail, a 

 topping ; over this a turn of bright scarlet crewel ; body, 



