50 SALMON FLIES. 



fur used is the fine dark grey on the front of the 

 hare's lug, where the fur is below a quarter of an 

 inch long. This fur requires to be pirled* with the 

 thumb and fore finger, along with the waxed thread. 

 This gives it a sort of felting-on with the thread 

 when you are rolling it round the shank of the hook. 

 Still continue the motion of twisting while rolling 

 it round. As you cannot come over the hook again 

 with a second coat, it requires the necessary thick- 

 ness to be done up at once over, and afterwards 

 adjusted with pickings and trimmings, which can be 

 better done with a small awl, having a handle, than 

 a pin. If the hook is of a large size, I approve of a 

 fine gold twist rolled around it, and a short bristled 

 hackle laid in the lee of the tinsel. But as this is 

 a fly more adapted to summer waters, and therefore 

 seldom requires to be dressed on the largest size of 

 hook, a hackle may be dispensed with. I have had 

 best success without a hackle, when the short fur was 

 neatly picked up to shade a little over the tinsel, the 

 tinsel only a one-third ply of the gold twist. For 

 the largest size of this fly, the ears of the roe-deer 

 are, by my friend elsewhere alluded to, preferred to 

 the hare's lug, as being a beautiful grey, and making 

 a lovely body, either with or without a hackle. Of 



* Anglice Tyvlsted. 



