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except in rapid streams. Use small black 

 bodied flies with silver and middling gaudy 

 wings, mixed with teal or cock of the north 

 feather* — change it to a gaudy one if they do 

 not take the black. Early in the mornings 

 before the sun strikes the water, and from three 

 o'clock till dark, or about sunset is a good time 

 to move a large fish with a fly he likes. The 

 two flies at the bottom of the plate with 

 "picker," are most likely ones for that time in 

 the day. The plain one is brown body, and 

 wings of mallard. The bottom one is green 

 body, and mixed wings of gaudy feathers ; the 

 body is a jointed one, of peacock green. I made 

 it nearly twenty years ago, — it is a beautiful 

 specimen of a gaudy fly for rapids after a flood. 



THE KIVEE TWEED. 



I will begin with this large and beautiful 

 salmon river, which runs rapidly along the 

 borders of England and Scotland, taking a 

 course from West to East. It flows majesti- 

 cally through a highly picturesque and cul- 

 tivated country, washing many good towns on 



