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Title: The book of the salmon; in two parts... Usefully illustrated with numerous coloured engravings of salmon-flies, and salmon-fry
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Fitzgibbon, Edward, 1803-1857 Young, Andrew
Subjects: Salmon Salmon fishing Flies, Artificial
Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, half an inch or rather less, orange oryellow macaw feather; wrings, silver pheasanttail, peacock wing, teal and guinea-hen feathers ;blue and yellow macaw feelers; head, orangemohair, or bright bronze peacock harl. Hook,No. 7. and 8. This is a famous little fly in low clear water.I killed last year, towards the end of July, inthe Shin, twenty-three salmon with it; I shouldhave killed more, but I w^ished to keep it as amemento mori. It should be used in the daytime, for it is not a gaudy fly, and suits brightweather and bright water. It is an Irish pattern. No. 11. Body, silver-coloured floss silk, ribbedwith silver tinsel and gold twist; a fine short-fibred black hackle wound over all; blue jayat the shoulder and a topping for tail; wings,a mixture of brown turkey tail and peacockswing-feathers, golden pheasant neck, teal, guinea-hen and light brown turkey or kite feathers,with a topping surmounting the whole ; blue andyellow macaw feelers, and black ostrich head.Hook, No. 6. and 7.
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) . 1 , LcjjdMi-.Lcmtfaaan & Lcmga A GENERAL SUMMER-FLY. 93 One of the best general early morning and lateevening flies I know of. If dressed on a No. 4.hook, it would kill well in the Shannon, theTweed, or the Spey, at high water. The wingis a good specimen of the mixed wing. Tiedon a No. 8. hook, it will be an excellent grilse-fly — one of the very best that can be used ofdull days in the rivers of Sutherlandshire. No. 12. Body, grey donkeys fur, from the buttof the ear, or hedgehogs fur, or grey pigs wool,to be ribbed and tipped with silver tinsel; goldcolour tag, and a tip of darker shade under theshoulder; tail, a few sprigs of mallard and goldenpheasant neck-feather; wings, mixed fibres ofgolden pheasant tail and breast-feathers, mallardand brown turkey ; feelers, blue macaw; and blueor blood-red head. Hook, No. 4. This fly is called the jackass, and is a cele-brated killer at Lismore, on the Blackwater, co.Cork. I look upon it as a general fly. If dressedon No. 6. and 7.

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