176 Artificial Flies for taking Trout, fyc. 



silk, or plain waxed silk ; tail, two strands from a squirrel's 

 tail. April, May, and June. 



51. THE MOOR-POUT AND YELLOW. This is made of the 

 same materials as the above, only using yellow instead of 

 orange silk. Both may be made as hackled-flies, using the 

 same feather for that purpose. Limerick hook, No. 1, for 

 both flies. April, May, and June. 



52. BLACK JACK. Wings, from the quill-feather of the 

 jackdaw, cock blackbird, or swift ; legs, a black cock's 

 hackle ; body, black silk made thin. This fly in its flight is 

 like a butterfly ; but when resting on a stone or anything 

 else, the wings lie close to the body and project beyond it ; 

 it has also a couple of feelers at the head. Limerick hook, 

 No. 2 or 3. Midsummer. 



53. SALMON JACK. Wings, from the quill-feather of the 

 jackdaw ; body, salmon-coloured floss silk, thinly wrapped ; 

 legs, a bright red cock's hackle. I once witnessed an Angler 

 in the Swale, some thirty years ago, kill an excellent dish 

 of trout with this fly, when two or three others had tried 

 all their flies and art in vain. Limerick hook, No. 1. Mid- 

 summer. 



54. THE CREEPER. Wings, from the tail-feather of the 

 large creeper, which is a grey mottled feather with black 

 bands in it ; legs, a pale red cock's hackle ; body, pale 

 orange floss silk. Limerick hook, No. 1. May. 



55. THE FIERY CLOCK. Wings, from the quill-feather of 

 the corn-crake, and a strand or two from the blackbird, laid 

 under the corn-crake ; legs, a red or black cock's hackle ; 

 body, bright scarlet worsted, ribbed with black silk, and 

 made pretty full. Limerick hook, No. 2 or 3, (Plate iv. 

 cxiv.) Midsummer. 



56. THE CLOCK. No. 1. This is a hackled-fly. Wings, 

 the small pale feather found on the inside of a corn-crake's 

 wing; body, a copper-coloured strand of peacock's herl, 

 dressed with orange or copper-coloured silk, and a tag of 

 the same. This is a standard fly on the Wear and its tri- 

 butaries, and I have proved it to kill well on the Tees, 

 Swale, Eden, and Eamont. Limerick hook, No. 1 or 2, 



