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very pale blue silk ; silver tinsel ; on large flies double the 

 tinsel or use silver twist alongside it ; hackle, either a blue 

 some shades darker, or a blue jay feather may be used, 

 and over this, at the shoulder, a grouse, or a bustard 

 hackle; mixed wing of bustard, dark turkey, Argus 

 pheasant, and dyed swan ; head, scarlet crewel. Some 

 people omit the scarlet crewel at head and tail, and use 

 the ordinary black ostrich harl ; it is matter of taste and 

 fancy. I don't think it influences the salmon much one way 

 or the other. The fly is dressed large at times. I have seen 

 very large ones used in the heavier casts in the Tummel, 

 where it is the best fly by far that can be used ; and they 

 run down to sea trout size. 



THE SILVER DOCTOR. There is another fly somewhat 

 similar to this called " the Wilkinson," which kills well hi 

 the Tweed and elsewhere. The doctor has a body of 

 silver tinsel, with a topping for tail, and red crewel at the 

 butt, as in the Blue Doctor ; blue hackle, speckled gallina 

 at the shoulder ; and a wing chiefly of pintail with dyed 

 swan, mixed fibres, a topping or two over, and red head. 

 The " Wilkinson " has a similar body ribbed with silver 

 thread; hackle and tail as in the Doctor, with a lake 

 coloured hackle at shoulder; a mixed wing of bustard, 

 wood duck, pintail, red and blue macaw, a topping over, 

 and two kingfishers at the shoulders ; with a black instead 

 of a red head. The only real difference is in the wing and 

 the shoulder hackle, which, possibly makes the fly a little 

 more brilliant, and perhaps improves it. From medium 

 to a moderate grilse size. 



THE BLACK AND TEAL is a capital fly, and kills almost 

 anywhere. In small flies I make the body of black silk, 

 and in larger ones, as it gets towards the shoulder, I throw 

 in some black pig's wool ; a topping for tail ; with silver 



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