107 



Salmon river in Great Britain. The hook 

 No. 6 or 9, Limerick. 



The best Irish hooks are numbered from 

 No. 1, largest Salmon size, to No. 10, Sea- 

 Trout size. 



No. 3. This is another of the Spirit Flies 

 that kill so well in the rivers of Ireland and 

 Scotland, at high water, particularly the Spey 

 and Tweed. The wings are made of the fol- 

 lowing mixtures of feathers, each side of the 

 wings to be alike : Brown mallard, • bustard 

 and wood-duck ; a topping, scarlet macaw, teal, 

 golden pheasant neck feather, a strip of yellow 

 macaw, and feelers of blue and yellow tail ; a 

 head of black ostrich ; the tail to be a topping, 

 mixed with green and red parrot tail ; the body 

 is composed of joints, first a tip of silver, a 

 tag of morone floss, a tag of black, a joint of 

 brown, green and brown-red hackle, puce and 

 red, green and yellow, blue and orange, with a 

 tip of gold tinsel at each joint, a very small 

 red hackle, and two red toucan feathers round 

 the shoulder, and blue kingfisher's feather on 

 each side of the wings. The hook No. 6, and 

 No. 10 for Grilse. 



No. 4. A celebrated Claret Fly, of very kill- 



