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ears, small black hackles, red and black ants, 

 browns, small duns, and hare's ear and yellow, 

 the blue blow, the brown midge, and in the 

 spring, the March brown, and stone fly, for 

 large Ash. 



There is a very nice stream running out of 

 "Loch Lomond" into the river Clyde, at the 

 town of Dumbarton, in which there are sea- 

 trout in the spring and autumn. They take 

 very small dun flieSj silver greys and black 

 midges, the dark hare's ear, and red hackle. 



The picturesque Loch Lomond affords good 

 trout fishing along its gravelly shores, and near 

 the islands. There are two flies that kill well 

 in it, which are as follows : Black body and 

 hackle, tip of silver, wings of the short bronze 

 feathers of the back of the peacock. No. 6 

 hook, or///. The other one is, red body, red 

 hackle, and a wing like the first, both tailed 

 with two fibres of the feather of the wings. I 

 received these two flies from a gentleman, one 

 time when I was at Glasgow, who confirmed 

 them as " out-and-outers." 



There are fish called Pullen, very numerous 

 } in lioch Lomond, the shape and size of her- 

 § rings, which are also numerous in Loch 



