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each joint a scarlet hackle, with a tip of gold 

 tinsel under each joint, to make it lively looking. 

 There is a purple hackle, or very dark blue, 

 struck round the shoulder. The size of the 

 hook is No. 6 or 7. Salmon, B or B B. 



No. 2. The wings are composed of golden 

 pheasant tail feather, mixed with the following : 

 strips of bustard, scarlet macaw, wood-duck, 

 mallard, yellow macaw body feather, silver 

 pheasant, and a topping over all, extending a 

 little longer than the other feathers ; blue and 

 yellow macaw feelers. The wing, as above, 

 should be laid out on a piece of paper, ready 

 to tie on after the body and legs are formed, 

 the jay rolled over the head in this fly, and the 

 head tied on last, of black ostrich. The tail is 

 a topping, mixed with a strip of wood-duck 

 feather, tipped with silver twist, a tag of gold- 

 colour floss, and black ostrich ; the body puce 

 floss to the centre, and the remainder orange 

 pig hair or mohair, ribbed with broad silver 

 tinsel, and a guinea-hen rump feather rolled 

 over the orange beneath the jay hackle. This 

 is about as tine a specimen of a Salmon fly as 

 ever was thrown into the water, and will kill 

 Salmon and Grilse, made small, in every 



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