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to unanimity is in regard to a certain amount of silver or gold 

 tinsel being a desideratum in the construction, or rather deco- 

 ration, of the bodies, which otherwise may be dressed smooth, 

 with floss silk, or rough, with mohair ; and of all shades and 

 colours of the rainbow — yellows, reds, and blues being, per- 

 haps, the most generally favoured. 



All legal restrictions in regard to the times and methods 

 of salmon fishing apply equally to sea-trout, the habits of which 

 are also generally very similar ; it is unnecessary, therefore, to 

 lay down any separate rules on the subject. 



And so I say farewell, and wish all my brother sportsmen 

 our old greeting on the Conway — 'A tight line !' 



John P. Traherne. 



[Many of the patterns of flies suitable for loch-fishing for 

 sea-trout (Salmo truttd) and for brown trout {Salmo fario), et 

 hoc genus, may be regarded as practically almost interchange- 

 able ; that is, a sea-trout fly will sometimes, and not very 

 infrequently, be found the killing patterq for brown trout, and 

 vice versa. The diagrams are facsimiles of two flies, dressed 

 on my new turn-down eyed hook with up-turn shank — the fly 

 on the sneck-bend (fig. i) the ' Hackle Red ' for brown trout, 

 and that on the Limerick-bend (fig. 2), the ' Hackle Claret ' 



for white (or sea) trout — with which I have often known this 

 principle to be illustrated. Although the ' speciality ' of the 



