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In this place the depth of the water requires 

 a bright fly; the following one will prove a 

 killer : — Body, orange floss silk, a small topping 

 for tail with a fibre or two of mallard, ribbed 

 with fine gold tinsel, and a rich brown-red 

 cock's hackle from the tail up, not too long in 

 the fibres, the hackle to be a little black at the 

 head when rolled on ; the wing of copper brown 

 mallard with a strip of wood-duck each side, 

 and a topping over all ; feelers of macaw, and 

 a black ostrich head. Hook CC. Should you 

 rise a fish with this old favorite, and it does 

 not take, try him once or twice more with it, 

 and no doubt you will have him. If he does 

 not hook himself with it, change it for a light 

 blue one, the body the blue colour of the sky, 

 legs the same, and a mallard wing ribbed with 

 gold. 



You now come to the sea, at "Bushfoot." 

 There is a pool here into which the tide ebbs 

 and flows, and at times the fish are plunging 

 over and over on the top of each other, which 

 the fishermen net when this is the case. 

 When the tide is out the Salmon will rise and 

 take the fly in it freely, as the flowing of the 

 river into it pushes out the brackish water 



