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inconvenience, were the Salmon allowed to 

 go free. 



The Salmon Flies for Connamara are rather 

 small and plain; various brown, black, red, 

 olive, and orange flies kill well, ribbed with 

 gold and silver. Those Sea-Trout ones, de- 

 scribed for Waterville, do also well, and orange 

 floss silk, ribbed with gold, small topping for 

 tail, jay round the head, and mallard mixed 

 wings. Hook C or C C. 



A small black fly, yellow tag, topping for tail, 

 rib of silver, teal, and golden pheasant neck, 

 breast feather of the peacock wing, mixed, blue 

 feelers of macaw, jay at the shoulder. Hook 

 B, or No. 9. A green body, ribbed with gold, 

 black red hackle, orange macaw, or cock of the 

 rock feather in the tail, short; a nice mixed 

 gaudy wing, with a good deal of mallard and 

 wood-duck prevailing, or silver pheasant wing, 

 the hen bird is best. C, C C or B hook ; vary 

 the size for high and low water. A small claret 

 fly, and the three flies in the Plates, Nos. 3, 4, 

 and 5, with No. 11, all made on small hooks, 

 these are the sorts to kill. The Sea-Trout 

 ones are very small black and red hackles, 

 grouse and wren hackles, dun flies, and little 



