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tyer also. The flies he sends are capital general flies, and would 

 kill anywhere. 



No. i. Tag, silver twist and light orange floss ; tail, sprigs 

 of green, hue, yellow, and red ; body, ruby floss, silver twist ; 

 hackle, medium claret, jay at shoulder ; wing, mixed fibres, 

 red, green, and blue, and gallina, with a small bunch of tippet 

 in the middle, two slices of brown mallard over, red macaw 

 ribs, black head. 



No. 2. Tag, silver twist and ruby floss ; tail, red, yellow, 

 and green, and tippet sprigs ; body, orange-yellow floss ; 

 tinsel, hackles, wing and head as before. 



No. 3 is The Claret, with the addition of a few dark blue 

 fibres thrown in amongst the claret body, which has a very 

 pretty effect, and a jay hackle at shoulder, instead of black. 

 The wing, too, is dressed very much as in the last two flies. 



No. 4 is A Claret, without the blue fibres, and with ruby 

 floss instead of orange, at the tail end of the body ; jay at the 

 shoulder ; and wing, as in the last, with the addition of two or 

 three fibres of green peacock herl. 



No. 5. Tag, silver twist and ruby floss ; tail, one topping ; 

 body, black floss ; hackle, medium claret, jay at shoulder, 

 silver twist ; wing, as above, with a little more blue in it. 

 Reduced in size, this is a capital Connemara white trout fly. 



No. 6. Tag, as in the last ; tail, mixed fibres as above ; 

 body, greenish olive-yellow floss, silver thread ; hackle, brown 

 olive, jay at shoulder ; wing, as in No. i ; black head, as have 

 all these flies. Hooks 7, 8, and 9. 



KILLARNEY AND THE FLESK 



The far-famed lakes of Killarney often hold a good many 

 salmon, but the nets and cross lines make single-rod fishing 

 rather a precarious sport. The Flesk, which runs into the 

 head of the lakes, is a pretty little river, but wants water to 

 show any sport. A day or two's rain, however, brings it down, 

 when the fish move up out of the lakes, and a brace or two may 

 then be taken if the opportunity is seized, but it runs down 

 almost as quickly as it rises. The Killarney lakes give very 

 early fish. 



No. i. Tag, silver tinsel ; tail, tippet and a kingfisher 

 feather ; butt, black ostrich ; body, darkish medium blue 

 floss ; hackle, blue jay all the way up, orange at shoulder ; 

 wing, brown turkey, blue macaw ribs. 



No. 2. Tag, silver twist ; tail, a topping and bit of mallard 



