Salmon Flies For The Ness
No. 1. Body half black and yellow, a jay and purple hackle ribbed with
silver, orange head, mallard, peacock wing and jungle cock wings. Hook
BB.
No. 2. Body black hair, orange tag, ribbed with gold and silver, black
hackle, jay at the shoulder, wings mixed, of guinea hen, teal, two small
tipped feathers, and two toppings over all a little longer, tail a small
topping, and a bronze head. Hook B or BB. Thi
will be found a great
killer in the Ness and Beauley, a beautiful stream at the head of the
Murray Firth.
No. 3. Body yellow-brown pig hair, ribbed with gold, small, topping for
tail, red cock's hackle and blue jay, wings of golden pheasant tail,
mixed with mallard, neck feather, teal, and guinea hen, green parrot and
macaw feelers, and a black head. Hook No. 9 or B; for low water, C. This
is a capital fly for either the Ness or Beauley. These, with the painted
flies, made small, will suit well.
There is a kind of yellowish slimy weed on the bottom of the Ness which
proceeds from Loch Ness, that is injurious to the propagation of the
salmon of late years, and it affects the fly fishing considerably, to
the great disappointment and vexation of the good anglers of the north.