TROUT FLIES. 259 
three flies as good all-round killers, one or other of which will 
generally bring fish to the basket. They are all hackle flies. 
As before observed @ profgos of lake flies, the great thing in 
dressing all flies on these eyed hooks is to leave clear the 
‘neck,’ as shown in the diagram, to receive the jam-knot. The. 
length of the hook-shank is specially designed to allow of this. 
‘TURNACE-BROWN' DRESSED ON PATENT SNECK-BEND UP-TURN SHANK 
EYED HOOK. 
1. The ‘ Blue upright,’ dressed with yellowish-grey quill body and slate-blue 
hackle and whisks (no wings). 2. The ‘Red spinner.’ Pale crimson crewel 
body, sparely ribbed with the finest gold thread (not oval); dark-red 
(natural) cock’s hackle with darker stem; whisks, 3 fibres of hackle (no wings). 
3. The ‘ Furnace brown.’ [A fly of my own, with which I have had sport in 
the streams (and not infrequently in the lakes also) of England, Jreland, Scot- 
land, and Wales] :—Body very dark chocolate-coloured silk, ribbed, sparely, 
with fine gold thread (not oval) ; dark furnace-hackle, with darker stem ; whisk, 
3 fibres of the same. 
Messrs. Farlow have also my dressings and patterns of these 
flies. —-H. C.-P.] 
