Vlll PREFACE. 



Having done all this with elaborate minuteness, 

 I proceed to describe the flies the salmon-fisher 

 must use. To render the description more intel- 

 ligible, fifteen model flies have been engraved and 

 coloured. Thirteen are after patterns made by Mr. 

 Blacker, of 54, Dean- Street, Soho, which I have 

 myself successfully tested ; and two are after fa- 

 vourite patterns kindly sent me, by a gentleman 

 connected with the Foreign Office, and an excel- 

 lent salmon fisher. These models will furnish 

 a correct idea of what salmon-flies ought to be, 

 generally speaking, in colour, shape, and size. 



The list of flies described is the largest, and 

 I think I may say the best, ever published. It 

 embraces general flies of my own selection, and 

 local flies, the patterns of which I have had from 

 the best recognized authorities. For the Tweed, 

 Mr. Forrest, of Kelso, has dressed for me the 

 best standard flies ; for the rivers of Sutherland- 

 shire, and for nearly all the rivers of Scotland, 

 Mr. Dunbar, of Loch-Inver, has made me the 

 best patterns, and described the rivers for which 

 they are suited, and the fit season for using them ; 



