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and kingfisher feather ; butt, red wool ; body, darkish medium 

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

 wing, brown turkey, blue macaw ribs. 



No. 3. Tag, ruby silk ; tail, mallard and tippet ; butt, black 

 ostrich ; body, pale olive-green floss, gold tinsel ; hackle, 

 medium blue, brown-olive at shoulder ; wing, mixed brown 

 turkey, argus, and gold pheasant tail ; head, blue ostrich. 



No. 4. Tag, gold tinsel and lemon-yellow wool ; tail, fibres 

 of mallard, gallina, a topping and kingfisher feather ; body, 

 copper-coloured mohair ; hackle, medium blue ; wing, brown 

 turkey and gold pheasant mixed, with fibres of blue macaw ; 

 black head. The bodies are sparely dressed. Hooks Nos. 6, 7, 

 and 8. 



THE LAUNE 



The salmon enter Killarney through the Laune, in the 

 upper part ofjwhich good sport is often had. The Laune is a 

 fine wide river, rather heavy down towards Killorglin, but 

 streamy and likely in the upper reaches. The fish do not rest 

 long in it in the early part of the season, when they make at 

 once for the lakes. Later on, however, good sport may be 

 got in it. 



No. i. Tag, orange floss; tail, tippet sprigs; butt, black 

 ostrich ; body, half bright medium green, and half light 

 orange floss, gold tinsel (narrow) ; medium blue hackle ; 

 brown hackle (not too long in fibre) at shoulder ; wing, brown 

 turkey, with a few fibres of tippet and blue macaw thrown in. 



No. 2. This fly resembles the last, save that the body is in 

 four joints : ruby, red, and orange alternately. The main 

 hackle is blue jay, and there is a topping on the tail. 



No. 3. Tag, silver tinsel ; tail, tippet sprigs and kingfisher 

 feather; butt, black ostrich; body, medium orange floss, 

 gold tinsel (narrow) : hackle, grouse, clipped all round ; light 

 orange hackle at shoulder (short) ; wing, a tippet feather, gold 

 pheasant tail au naturel, and a small portion stained claret ; 

 head, black. 



All the Laune bodies must be dressed as spare as possible, 

 the hackles are short in fibre, and of the same size as in the 

 Killarney and Flesk flies ; and a peculiarity of the fishermen 

 in this part of the world is, that they use a hook some two sizes 

 larger in the bend than would commonly be used for the same 

 fly, breaking off a piece of the shank of the hook to get the fly 

 to the right size. 



