122 SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOOK OP THE BLACK BASS. 



Lord Baltimore, Body, orange ; hackle, tail and wings, 

 black, with small upper wings of jungle-cock. 



Professor Mayer and I, being natives of Baltimore, and 

 knowing that black and yellow formed a good and taking 

 combination in an artificial fly, each designed, unknown to 

 the other, a fly to embody these colors ; and as they are 

 the heraldic colors of the State of Maryland, and were the 

 heraldic colors of Lord Baltimore, Professor Mayer aptly 

 named his trout fly, " Lord Baltimore ;" while I designated 

 my Black Bass fly, the " Oriole/' from the Baltimore oriole, 

 or hanging bird, which beautiful songster was named in 

 honor of Lord Baltimore, as its colors were the same as his 

 own black and orange. 



I have been experimenting with a fly, of my own design- 

 ing, for several seasons, that is as yet a puzzle to me. 

 Sometimes it is the most killing fly I ever cast, the Bass 

 rising to it madly when they would notice no other fly ; but 

 on other occasions it is notlat all successful, the Bass re- 

 fusing it altogether, always taking the other fly in the cast. 

 I have not yet determined the most suitable conditions and 

 occasions for using it, though I am inclined to think it best 

 on cloudy days. It is constructed entirely of metallic 

 colors, and I give its formula in order that any one feeling 

 an interest in it may try it : 



Golden Dustman. Body, bronze (peacock herl).; hackle, 

 golden yellow ; wings, bronze (wild turkey) ; tail, fibers 

 from the crest of golden pheasant. 



Abbey & Imbrie have patented and manufacture what 

 they call the " Fluttering Fly." It is made in the same 

 patterns and in the same manner as the conventional fly, 

 except that the hook is reversed ; that is, the tail of the fly 

 is at the end of the shank, while the head is near the bend 



