CARAGH AND LOUGH CURRANE 305 



THE CARAGH AND LOUGH CURRANE (WATERVILLE) 



The upper part of the Caragh is rather dull and heavy. The 

 lower part, however, improves and gives some good pools and 

 streams. It yields some sport, but would give very fine sport 

 if the fish had but fair play ; but what with the weir, the nets, 

 and the crosslines, they are woefully harried. Lough Currane is 

 a fine sheet of water. The river, however, is short ; it yields 

 very fine white trout and a salmon or two on any tolerable 

 day. 



The same flies kill both on Lough Currane and the Caragh, 

 and they are for the most part of much the same character as 

 those for the Lee and Blackwater, greys, blues, and clarets 

 running more or less through them. 



No. i is like No. i in the Lee flies, save that it has a medium 

 blue instead of a yellow hackle at the shoulder, and tippet 

 instead of peacock in the wing. It is dressed of large sea trout 

 size for summer or Nos. 10 or n. 



No. 2 resembles No. 3 in the Lee flies, save that the grey and 

 claret are reversed in position, and the hackle at the shoulder 

 is medium blue. Hook No. 7. 



No. 3. Tag, gold tinsel and orange floss ; tail, one topping ; 

 body and hackles, dark blue and dark claret (half and half) ; 

 gallina stained pale blue hackled on the shoulder ; fine gold 

 twist ; wing (streaked), gold pheasant tail, some tippet, brown 

 mallard over, kingfisher at cheek ; black head ; hook 7 or 8. 



No. 4. Tag, silver tinsel and orange floss ; tail, tippet and 

 mallard ; body, dark blue mohair ; silver twist ; hackle, very 

 dark blue, blue jay on shoulder ; wing, tippet, peacock, red 

 parrot, and mallard over ; black head ; hook 10 or n. 



No. 5. Tag, silver tinsel and orange floss ; tail, brown 

 mallard and tippet ; body, dirty dark brown-olive ; hackle 

 the same, light orange hackle on shoulder ; fine gold twist ; 

 wing, tippet, bastard bustard, and brown mallard over, blue 

 macaw ribs ; black head ; hook 10 or n. 



No. 6. Tag, silver tinsel and orange floss ; tail, tippet, a 

 topping, green parrot and mallard ; body, dirty olive-yellow 

 pig's wool ; gold twist ; hackle, medium blue, light orange on 

 shoulder ; wing, tippet, gold pheasant tail, green parrot and 

 brown mallard over ; hook 8 and 9. Years ago, I had this 

 pattern of Blacker, when starting up to Thurso, and I never 

 could make out what part of the country it hailed from, for I 

 never could kill with it though much liking the look of the fly, 



