The rod and line or, Practical hints and dainty devices for the sure taking of trout, graylings, etc. . low floss silk. Broad gold tag. Wings. Bitterns wing feather, twostrips. Hackle. Bittern. Tail. Short, of one red and one yellow feather laid side by side; ora single feather from theParrot, which combines thesame two colours. SALMON-FISHING. 137 Plate VIII. Body. Bright red worsted. Rib with a strand of Black Ostrich, andrather fine gold alternately. Wings. From a dozen to twenty strandsof the Peacocks tail few of the bright greenstrands from the sword featherof the Peacock
The rod and line or, Practical hints and dainty devices for the sure taking of trout, graylings, etc. . low floss silk. Broad gold tag. Wings. Bitterns wing feather, twostrips. Hackle. Bittern. Tail. Short, of one red and one yellow feather laid side by side; ora single feather from theParrot, which combines thesame two colours. SALMON-FISHING. 137 Plate VIII. Body. Bright red worsted. Rib with a strand of Black Ostrich, andrather fine gold alternately. Wings. From a dozen to twenty strandsof the Peacocks tail few of the bright greenstrands from the sword featherof the Peacock may be laidover them. Hackle. Brightest Golden Pheasantstippet feather under the Tail. Red and yellow ; same as No. 2. Plate yill. 138 SALMON-FISHTNG. Plate IX. Fig. I, Body. White or grey worsted chenille. Wings. Two sets. The upper are thetips of two white feathers,so set on as to stand almostupright. The under are alsothe tips of two white feathers,but finer and smaller than theothers; lying, too, somewhatflatter, to show under the firstpair of wings. Hackle. Yellowish white. Head. Black. \N 13. SALMON-FISHING. 139 Plate IX. Body. The blue roots of the Eabbits Blue Dun over the whole body, thickened toward the head with a blue feather from the The point of a small Herons feather ; so put on as to bend over the Two shafts of a blue hackle, with the fibres cut almost, but not quite, close oiF. 140 SAT/MON-FISHING. Plate IX. Fig, 3. Body. Green floss silk. Rib rather fine flat gold. Wings. Two feathers from the rufl ofthe King Bird of stand upright. Hackle. From the cock Trogan, whichwhen looked down upon is abeautiful green; but in thewater a kind of purple. Indefault of this, which is anexpensive feather, a goodblack-red. In either case thehackle must be wrapped overall. Head. Black Ostrich. SALMON-FISHING. 141 Of the foregoing, No. 1. Plate YII., andNo. 3. Plate IX. are very beautiful and ex-pensive flies, particularly t
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