48o 



AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



tube, fits snugly and completes the tout cnscuiblc. The 

 hook-part, of course, is securely attached to the snell, and 

 the adjustable wings and legs do not throw out, but are 

 naturally tightened by the water. 



This novel invention is (like all the other novelties 

 described in these articles), my own, and I claim for it quite 

 an extended range of usefulness. It often happens that the 

 Bass, Trout, and even Salmon fisherman finds it necessary 

 to change his flies till the right color and arrangement are 

 hit upon. If he possess twelve only of these sets of adjustable 

 flies — that is, twelve bodies, twelve wings, etc., — he can 

 make twelve dozen — or 144 — different changes, and a gross 



Fig. 29. 



of these flies, costing no more than a gross of first-class flies 

 ever do, will provide him with — not 144, as would be the 

 case with a gross of ordinary flies — but twenty thousand 

 seven hundred and thirty-six changes — sufficient to last a 

 life-time. It should be said that the adjustable system is 



