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so-called legs. The hook should be of the same size 

 as represented in the plate ; and it has been ob- 

 served that all large salmon-flies should be dressed 

 upon double gut, and that the silk in dressing be 

 brought beyond the shank of the hook, and wrapped 

 four or five times round the gut, so that it may not 

 be speedily cut by the sharpness of the steel.* This 

 same fly, dressed with the wings of a somewhat 

 brighter shade, and with the addition of a little 

 gold wire or twist wrapped round the body at equal 

 distances, will also serve for a more advanced sea- 

 son of the year. Fig. 2. is of smaller size, and 

 may sometimes be dressed upon very strong single 

 gut. Any feather of a coppery or dingy yellow 

 colour, if not too coarse in the fibres, will be suit- 

 able for the wings ; the body is of lemon-coloured 

 mohair, mixed with a small portion of light-brown 

 fur or camlet, with a pale dusky ginger hackle over 

 the whole. The chief object to be attended to in 

 dressing this fly, is to produce that uniform hue, 

 devoid of gaudy colouring, from which it has re- 

 ceived the name of the Quaker-fly. It must not, 

 however, be confounded with the Martyn barry, 

 which is a smaller fly for trouts. Of Fig. 4. (Sal- 

 mon-flies, Plate II.) the wings are made from the 

 plumes of a cormorant, or from the mottled feathers 

 of a dark mallard ; the body is of dark sable, ribbed 

 with gold wire, over which a dusky red hackle is 

 thickly wound ; the mottled feathers of a drake 

 are used for the tail, and, previous to fastening off, 



* Bainbridge's Fly-Fisher's Guide, p. 96. 



