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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 !’ 
Joun P. TRAHERNE. 
(Many of the patterns of flies suitable for loch-fishing for 
sea-trout (Salmo trutta) 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 pattern for brown trout, and 
vice versd. 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. 1) the ‘ Hackle Red’ for brown trout, 
and that on the Limerick-bend (fig. 2), the ‘Hackle Claret’ 
FIG. 4. FIG. « 
for white (or sea) trout—with which I have often known this 
principle to be illustrated. Although the ‘speciality’ of the 
