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the body. There are no hackles used in the 

 spring, till a little further on in the season, 

 then hackle flies are used; the wren tails of 

 different sorts are very much prized, and the 

 light red-brown grouse hackle, and yellow body; 

 a blue body fly, black hackle, and wings of 

 the starling; a gosling green olive fly, with 

 mallard wings, mixed with landrail, and a hook 

 No. 8 or 10; a fly with a yellow body of silk, 

 red hackle dyed yellow, starling wing mixed 

 with mallard, and a little partridge tail; the 

 golden wren is good ; a very small black gnat 

 is good; and the never-failing "blue blow." 

 The body of this little fly, as used on the Bann, 

 is mole's fur mixed with golden olive, picked 

 out at the shoulder, and a black bird's wing, 

 to be fished with on warm sultry days. These 

 flies are killers, and the trout are fond of them, 

 which will be found excellent and plentiful at 

 Portna. 



On the shores of Lough Neagh, towards the 

 Bridge of Toome, where the river issues out of 

 the lake, there is good angling in the Drake 

 season in June. There is a small inn at Toome 

 Bridge, where the angler can procure a boat. 

 It is but four miles north of " Randalstown," 



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