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body for a basis, you may put any hackle and wing to it 

 you like, but I do not think you can improve the body. 

 Tail, a topping and a bit of red ibis ; body, two turns of 

 golden yellow pig's wool, changing into orange, and then 

 into claret, and lastly into darkish blue ; and you may add 

 a twirl of black. The upper part of the body should be 

 roughish, and picked out to serve as a hackle ; silver and 

 gold thread side by side, a black hackle on the shoulder ; 

 wing, slips of dark turkey, well marked bustard, bittern 

 wing, and dyed swan fibres, various. Size medium. 



THE POPHAM. This is a curious fly, but it has become 

 a very general favourite of late years. The body is made 

 in three equal joints of floss silk, the lowest of bright 

 yellow, the middle one of medium blue, and the upper one 

 of orange ; at each joint is tied in two or three Indian 

 crow feathers, with a turn of peacock harl over ; fine gold 

 twist ; blue jay hackle at shoulder ; tail, a topping ; a 

 mixed wing of golden pheasant tail and tippet, bustard, 

 teal, and dyed swan fibres various, and one topping. From 

 medium to grilse size. 



THE WASPS. These are flies so named on the Tay, but 

 they are merely the type of the old almost universal Scotch 

 fly, which formerly, with a slight variation in the wing, 

 was used, and is now, not only all over Scotland, but 

 Wales as well. Varied slightly they are the most useful 

 flies the angler can have in his book. The body is the 

 main point, it is made of pig's wool, the lower half yellow, 

 the upper of either medium, blue, black, or claret pig's 

 wool, or you may graduate it with a few turns of orange 

 or claret above the yellow ; the hackles are mostly either 

 coch-y-bonddhu or black, with or without a bit of gallina, 

 jay, blue or claret, at the shoulder ; tinsel, either silver or 

 gold at will tail a discretion. The wings are either of 



