No. 1. Brown pig hair bodies, ribbed with gold, dark brown-red hackle,
wings light brown spotted turkey tail, red tag, and a scarlet joint
above it; the body to be made long and taper. Hook No. 8. Rather large
for the spring.
No. 2. A bronze peacock harl body, ribbed with gold tinsel, a brown-red
hackle, and wings of mallard mixed with hen pheasant tail, the tail of
the golden pheasant, red tail of mohair cut short, and the body to be
thin. No. 9 hook.
No. 3. Brown mohair body, with a long red-brown spotted grouse hackle;
the wings a mixture of mallard, brown turkey, and a little hen pheasant
tail. Hook No. 8 or 9.
No. 4. A puce mohair body ribbed with silver, purple hackle over it,
yellow tail of small topping, and a yellow hackle round the shoulder;
wings of golden pheasant tail, with a little spotted bustard, a topping
over all, and a black head. Hook No. 8 or 9. (A piece of wood-duck each
side.)
No. 5. An orange body ribbed with black silk and gold tinsel, topping in
the tail, and a black-red hackle over it, (a hackle with the black
streak running all the way through it); scarlet tag and tail; wings
light brown turkey tail, rather lighter at the tips, a few fibres of
wood-duck each side, the same quantity of bustard, and a bronze head.
Hook No. 9, or for high water, No. 7.
This fly will be found an excellent killer in the Tay, or any other
river in Scotland.
These, with the twelve painted and engraved flies, no man can desire
better. Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 11, will be found excellent in low water, and
Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, in high water.
THE SEA-TROUT FLIES are orange bodies, mixed wings, jay at shoulder,
silver tinsel, and a small topping for tail. Hook _fff_ or C, say No.
6, Kendal.
Blue body, black hackle ribbed with silver, and mallard wings. Hook CC.
Green body, black hackle, gold twist, and dark brown turkey wings.
Light brown body, red hackle, gold twist, two fibres of red Ibis for
tail, and glede wings. Hook No. 6 or 7. In low water they take them
rather small, with the tinsel, of course.
Hare's ear body, ribbed with silver twist, a greyish dark hackle, the
colour of the dark fur on the ear, mallard wings, and tail of the same.
Make another fly mixed with orange and yellow mohair.
A black fly ribbed with silver tinsel, black wing with white tips, black
hackle, and a yellow head and tail. Hook C.
It would be as well to try very small gaudy flies occasionally, as you
may rise a grilse during the time you are fishing for white-trout. A
grilse loves to rise at a middling gaudy fly after leaving the sea.
Blue, green, and red flies are all good.