Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakesBeing the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland . maker at Ballyshannon : Jimmy Rogan is a good man toconsult ; he is a keen and skilful angler as well as a first-classflv-tier, and spares no pains to please his clients. For the benefitof those taking their flies with them the following patterns arerecommended -.—Thunder and Lightning, Silver Grey, FieryBrown, Green Parson, Olive and Claret, Golden Olive, Black andClaret, Black Jay. The late Francis Francis re
Picturesque Donegal: its mountains, rivers, and lakesBeing the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland . maker at Ballyshannon : Jimmy Rogan is a good man toconsult ; he is a keen and skilful angler as well as a first-classflv-tier, and spares no pains to please his clients. For the benefitof those taking their flies with them the following patterns arerecommended -.—Thunder and Lightning, Silver Grey, FieryBrown, Green Parson, Olive and Claret, Golden Olive, Black andClaret, Black Jay. The late Francis Francis recommends thefollowing special dressings of salmon flies for this water, but there THE RIVER ERSE. 139 is little doubt that the best plan is to get the local flies troinRogan, who also dresses these patterns :— Francis Francis dressings of The Parson. Hook No. 7 : tailtwo twists gold, small topping and two or three sprigs goldpheasant tippets, black harl, three twists : body, golden olive silk,changing into pigs down of the same shade, then into orangeand fiery brown towards the shoulder : golden olive hackle threeparts down the body, with full claret hackle over : wing, two. THK KSILARV Ol llil-: ERXK. golden pheasant saddle feathers, over this three or four toppingswith sprigs of green parrot, golden pheasant tippet, pintail,turkey, and wood duck, with kingfishers or blue chatterersfeathers at each jowl, and blue macaws feeler : head, black harl,gold tinsel according. Other parsons are dressed larger, withsix, seven, or eight toppings in the wing, with cock of the rockad. lib., and with jays hackle and purple cock instead of pintail,and even small toppings on the breast. This last one is good inheavy water. 140 PICTURESQUE DONEGAL. Another fly : Hook No. 5 : silver twist and puce silk tag,golden pheasant topping and tippet sprigs for tail; ostrich harlover; apple-green silk body tipped with black twist and silvergreenish yellow hackle all the way down; gold pheasant tippet
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