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salmon, having resisted all ordinary persuasiveness, require 

 to be very strongly appealed to. But if you substitute a 

 golden olive hackle, with a medium claret above that, and blue 

 jay at shoulder, and reduce the number of toppings, and tie 

 into the wing a couple of gold pheasant saddle feathers over 

 the tippet feather, a capital working parson, a sort of curate, is 

 produced, fit for hard every-day work. 



We now come to the bourgeois, and begin with one whose 

 very name is ensanguined. 



The Butcher (Farlow's) . This is a very general favourite ; 

 it kills almost wherever there are salmon. In the Awe, the 

 Orchy, the Brora, the Naver, the Thurso, the Helmsdale, the 

 Annan, and the Taw and Torridge, it is a prime favourite. 

 Tag, gold twist and dark orange floss ; tail, one topping ; 

 butt, black ostrich herl ; body, two or three turns of claret, 

 ditto of medium blue, ditto of red, and the rest of dark blue 

 pig's wool ; broad silver tinsel ; medium red claret hackle, 

 gallina on shoulder ; under wing, a tippet and gold pheasant 

 rump feather, over them strips of brown mallard, bustard, 

 peacock, wood duck, and blue and yellow swan strips ; black 

 head. (Frontispiece, Fig. 6.) 



Here is another plan of dressing the fly sent me by a friend, 

 who is a very skilful brother of the craft, being no less than 

 the gentleman who writes those pleasant chatty articles in 

 Bell's Life, under the nom de plume of " Fin." I give his own 

 directions. Mixed wing, rich long jungle cock feathers over ; 

 body, claret, blue, and orange pig's wool ; three turns of broad 

 silver twist ; dark claret hackle at shoulder, light claret to the 

 tail ; small kingfisher feather on each shoulder ; tail, topping 

 and wood duck ; and he adds, "I've killed lots of fish with 

 this fly." As poor Pat McKay used to say, " Av coorse ye 

 have, megorra ! why wouldn't ye ? " 



The Baker (Farlow's) is another good general fly ; "1 dressed 

 small it is a standard fly on the Dovey. Tag, gold twist and 

 lightish blue floss ; tail, a topping ; butt, black herl ; body, 

 three turns of golden-coloured floss, dark orange, light blue, 

 and red pig's wool, broadish gold tinsel ; medium red claret 

 hackle, gallina at shoulder, with light blue over it ; under wing, 

 two tippet feathers, sprigs of gold pheasant tail, bustard, pea- 

 cock, red, bright green, and blue and yellow sprigs of swan over ; 

 blue macaw ribs ; black head. 



Having given the butcher and baker, the trades will not be 

 complete without 



