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tinsel and red hackle ; a tag of red mohair at the 

 head ; brown mallard's feather for wings. Vary 

 the bodies with scarlet, yellow, or orange, retain- 

 ing the same wings and hackles. 



Sir Hyde Parker has been very successful in 

 Norway with these two last flies. 



Having given a good list of salmon flies, I will 

 simply add, that salmon may be taken with the 

 worm, or by spinning the minnow, or any small 

 bright-coloured fish. If you fish with a worm, 

 use a swivel-trace well leaded, and casting your 

 bait across the stream, draw it gently towards 

 you through the water, as if you were spinning. 

 When a salmon takes it, do not strike him in- 

 stantly, but give him a few seconds' law, and he 

 will gorge the bait. Some anglers fish with the 

 worm in Ireland when the water is discoloured, 

 but the best time is in fine, fresh open weather, 

 when the water is low and clear. As London 

 anglers are in general very good spinners, they 

 will find no difficulty in killing salmon in Scot- 

 land and elsewhere by spinning, less difficulty 

 than in catching Thames trout. On this subject 

 Mr. Scrope makes a few valuable remarks : - 

 " Salmon do not take the minnow or the parr's 

 tail so well in the Tweed as they do in the Tay, 

 nor so well in the upper parts of the Tweed as they 

 do in the lower. The minnow, in low water, is pre- 

 ferable to the parr's tail ; and it should be worked 



