Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... recorded successful sport that not many are required on chalk streams--in fact, not a quarter of the one hundred patterns which experts made out lists of a decade ago. I have gone through a season with one pattern of fly only. (See Field, March 18th, 1899, and December 17th, 1904.) I submit the following reduced list of trout and grayling flies, all to be dressed on Hutchinson's blue sneck-bend, turned-up eyed-hooks in varying sizes, according to circumstances, from No. 000 to No, 1, and for evening fishing, when phyrganidse are on the wing, Nos. 2 and 3. All are not, of course, needed by my novice (to whom I will now again address myself), but I do not like to omit any one of them; you will soon learn to discriminate as to those you like best, and as you improve in practice you will settle down to a few favourites. TROUT FLIES. Red quill, with dark starling double wings and red gamecock's hackles; olive quill, with pale, medium, and dark wings (both these patterns ma} be varied with a flat gold or silver tag); ginger quill, blue quill, gold-ribbed hare's ear, Salisbury red-spinner, with badger hackle; Wickham's fancy, silver sedge; black gnats of both sexes, woodcock quill, Lock's fancy, iron blue, brown sedge, and small Alexandra on No. 1 hook; this properly made can be fished dry, and, although I do not use it myself, I see no reason why so small a one should be objectionable where a silver-bodied fly like Foster's fancy and other patterns resplendent in gold and silver are tolerated. GRAYLING FLIES. Red tag, Foster's fancy, honey dun bumble fished dry, the Englefield quill, with and without a flat silver tag, as tied by Ogden Smith; pink Wickham, apple-green, hare's ear, and dark olive dun with silver-ribbed body. But you will find...
