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wool, gold thread ; medium blue hackle ; wing, speckled cock 

 pheasant. One size smaller than the last three. 



No. 5. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, brown mallard ; body, dark 

 brown claret, gold thread ; black hackle with medium brown 

 hackle at shoulder ; wing, a few fibres of speckled cock 

 pheasant, and over them dark jay's wing ; black head. Same 

 size as first three. 



No. 6. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, brown mallard ; body, three 

 turns of orange floss, the rest black ostrich herl ; black hackle ; 

 wing, dark cinnamon, partridge tail is hardly long enough in 

 the fibre there is an Indian pheasant which has the feather. 

 One size smaller. 



I now give half a dozen patterns for the Caragh, which will 

 kill on most of the Kerry rivers. They are also by Haynes, and 

 are not inferior to the last. 



No. i. Tail, two grey mallard strands ; medium blue floss 

 body, silver tinsel ; hackle same colour as body ; wing, jay's 

 wing. Small size. 



No. 2. Tail, three strands of brown mallard ; body, dirty 

 yellow-orange, gold thread ; medium blue hackle ; light jay's 

 wing. 



No. 3. Tag, silver thread ; tail, three strands of bustard ; 

 body, one-third medium orange floss, the rest silver-grey fur, 

 silver thread ; hackle, smoky blue dun ; wing, darkish jay's 

 wing. 



No. 4. Tag, gold tinsel ; tail, brown mallard ; body, one- 

 third golden-yellow floss, the rest hare's ear ; hackle, red 

 (light transparent olive when held up to light) ; wing, jay's 

 wing, with dark butt to the feather. 



No. 5. Mallard tail ; medium orange floss body, gold thread ; 

 wing and hackle, light tawny grouse hackle, only at the 

 shoulders, and clipped on the breast. 



No. 6. Tail, grey mallard ; body, lightish olive-green pig's 

 wool roughish, fine gold thread ; wing, a rather light coloured 

 bit of speckled cock pheasant tail, a wad of the same being tied 

 on at the breast as a hackle, and then clipped. All these flies 

 are of the smallest size used for sea trout. 



With such a list of sea trout flies as I have given in the last 

 half-dozen pages, scarcely any lake or river in the kingdom can 

 fail to be well suited. 



