IDEAS ON FLY-FISHING. 247 



that I have found successful on almost all waters and 

 at every portion of the open season, I will describe ; 

 in fact, I have so much faith in them that I invari- 

 ably use all three in making my first essay on an un- 

 known river, viz., the red hackle, hare's ear and yel- 

 low, and black hackle. In America, on the small 

 trout-brooks, I found them equally attractive, evi- 

 dence of a similarity of taste in fish on the Eastern 

 and Western continents. Fly No. 1, the red hackle, 

 body composed of rufus wool, twisted in with tying 

 silk, lower portions of body to be fine, gradually in- 

 creasing in thickness till the shoulder is reached. 

 Shoulder of bright-red cock's hackle, the color that 

 is obtained in a natural state from the domestic 

 fowl, game fowls generally producing the finest ; 

 but if those from the East Indian jungle-cock can be 

 obtained, you will possess the very best. Wings 

 put on separately, and obtained from the wings of the 

 corn crake, shot immediately previous to their au- 

 tumnal migration. Fly No. 2, hare's ear and yellow ; 

 this has a tail composed of two strands from the 

 larger feathers of the guinea fowl, body composed of 

 the fine mottled hair off the ears of a hare, mixed 

 with fine mohair, of any of the intermediate shades 

 from straw color to olive. The mohair should be cut 



