308 A BOOK ON ANGLING 



herl, with the eye at the butt as before ; head, rough, of red pig's 

 wool. Hooks respectively 3 and 4. 



THE NORE 



The patterns for the Nore are also from Mr. Staples. 



No. i. Tag, silver tinsel and olive-yellow pig's wool ; tail, 

 bustard, red parrot, and a topping ; body, very dark purple- 

 blue pig's wool (rather rough) ; blue jay hackle at shoulder, 

 moderate, and not too much of it ; silver tinsel ; wing, a 

 bunch of green peacock herl, with brown mallard over, inter- 

 spersed with a little grey mallard, stained light yellow or buff, 

 and one topping ; head, olive-yellow pig's wool. 



No. 2. Tag, gold tinsel, and medium blue pig's wool ; tail, 

 blue macaw ; body, olive-yellow pig's wool, rough, and picked 

 out at the breast ; hackle, a golden olive (or rather orange) 

 with a vivid black centre, at the shoulder ; gold tinsel ; wing, 

 a bunch of copper-coloured peacock herl, and a good slip or two 

 of blue macaw over it . This is a striking-looking fly, owing to 

 the hackle chiefly. 



No. 3, Tag, gold tinsel and lightish blue pig's wool ; tail, 

 Indian jay, and fibres of a buff hackle ; body, dark red (tending 

 to claret) pig's wool, rough and picked out ; gold tinsel ; 

 lightish blue hackle at shoulder ; wing, as in the last fly, with a 

 slip of red parrot or macaw added. 



No. 4 is a small Galway pattern ; tag, gold twist and orange 

 floss ; tail, a topping ; body, lake floss ; hackle, gallina 

 trimmed on the breast ; fine silver tinsel ; a turn or two of 

 blue jay on shoulder ; wing, mixed gold pheasant tail, gallina, 

 tippet, bustard, mallard, green sprigs ; blue macaw ribs, and a 

 short kingfisher feather ; black head. The flies run from No. 7 

 to 12. 



The Nore is more of a summer river than the Suir, and the 

 above pattern will kill well late in the season. 



THE BUSH 



Is a smallish and not very interesting river, being dull and 

 heavy, and wanting in that briskness of stream and broken 

 water which the experienced salmon-fisher loves to see ; but 

 like many other rivers of the same nature, it often holds a 

 large quantity of fish, and in suitable weather gives good takes 

 to the rod.* 



* It is a very early river, good sport being sometimes had in February ; 

 whereas in the Bann, a river six times the size of the Bush, flowing into the 

 sea only six miles to the west of that little river, no salmon run until near 

 midsummer. ED . 



