250 Book of the Black Bass. 



The foregoing list embraces all of the flies that I use in 

 black bass fishing, except the red, black, brown, gray, and 

 yellow hackles. The last four in the table are especially 

 nsefid on dark days, or toward evening. 



Most of the flies in the table are general favorites, and 

 in my own hands have all proved very killing. I merely 

 mention them, to the exclusion of others, as a general 

 guide, for each angler will soon adopt a few flies for his 

 own fishing, none of which may have been mentioned 

 above, but he will nevertheless continue to use them, and 

 swear by them on all occasions; and this is one of the 

 glorious privileges of the art of angling. 



As a father naturally thinks his own children the best, 

 smartest, and handsomest, I may be pardoned for placing 

 in the above list — and strongly recommending as general 

 flies — my polka, oriole, Oconomowoc, and Henshall, leav- 

 ing to others the praise or condemnation due them. The 

 formulas for their construction are as follows : 



Polka. — Body, scarlet, with gold twist ; hackle, red ; 

 wings, black with white spots (guinea fowl) ; tail, brown 

 and white, mixed. 



Oriole. — Body, black, with gold tinsel; hackle, black; 

 wings, orange or yellow; tail, black and yellow, mixed. 



Oconomowoc. — Body, creamy-yellow; hackle, white and 

 dun (hairs from deer's tail) ; tail, ginger ; wings, cinnamon 

 (woodcock). 



Henshall. — Body, peacock harl ; hackle, white hairs from 

 deer's tail; wings, gray (dove); tail, two fibers (green) 

 from peacock's tail-feather. 



The Lord Baltimore fly originated with Prof. Alfred M. 

 Mayer, of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, 

 New Jersey. Its formula is as follows : 



Lord Baltimore.— Body, orange; hackle, tail and wings, 

 black, with small upper wings of jungle-cock. 



