A book On Angling Being a Complete Treatise On the Art of Angling in Every Bran
A book On Angling Being a Complete Treatise On the Art of Angling in Every Bran
Francis V. R.
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The hook of this fly is a No. 2 or 3. The size sent is between the two. No. 2. Tag, silver thread and yellow floss ; tail, a good- sized topping ; some tippet, and gallina, butt, black ostrich ; body, copper-coloured floss ; broad silver tinsel and narrow gold ditto side by side ; hackle, medium claret, blue jay at shoulder ; wing, as before, the tippets not quite so long, a little English bustard, brown mallard, and brown speckled turkey instead of gled, and bright bustard, red macaw and pale ...green swan sprigs, no blue macaw at all ; hook, a size smaller than the last. No. 3. Tag, silver thread and ruby floss ; tail, a good-sized * Since the above was printed I have had the news of poor Sir Alexander's death. But a short year since I enjoyed the pleasure of his hospitality in his beautiful residence on the banks of the lovely Findhorn ; we fished, tied flies, and held sweet converse upon matters piscatorial, day by day, and I have seldom enjoyed a week more thoroughly than that I spent at Altyre ; he was then apparently in the pride of his strength and the prime of man- hood.
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