" The trout-fly does not resemble any known species of insect. 

 It is a ' conventionalized ' creation, as we say of ornamentation. 

 The theory is, that, fly-fishing being a high art, the fly must not 

 be a tame imitation of nature, but an artistic suggestion of it. It 

 requires an artist to construct one ; and not every bungler can 

 take a bit of red flannel, a peacock's feather, a flash of tinsel 

 thread, a cock's plume, a section of a hen's wing, and fabricate a 

 tiny object that will not look like any fly, but still will suggest 

 the universal conventional fly." — Charles Dudley Warner. 



" When you fish with a flie, if it be possible, let no part of your 

 line touch the water, but your flie only." — Izaak Walton. 



i. Coachman. 2. Leadwing Coach- 3. Royal Coach- 

 man, man. 



4. Coachman red 5. Gilt Coachman. 6. Cowdung. 



tip. 



7. Fern. 8. Blue Jay. 9. Abbey. 



10. Red Ant. 11. Black Ant. 12. Seth Green. 



13. Professor. 14. Blue Professor. 15. Dark Stone. 



"A combination of English Jay is one of the most effective 

 flies in the world, as it can be put into as gay a fly as you please, 

 and also into as plain a one as you like." — Capt. Peel (" Dinks "). 



"When I think of the great secrets of Nature locked up from 

 our knowledge (yet under our eyes at every turn of your daily 

 duty), and imagine what a mine of intellectual wealth remains to 

 be opened out by quickness of sight, clearness of intellect, and 

 the pickaxe of hard work, a great panorama opens before me. 

 How ignorant— how terribly ignorant— are we of God's great laws 

 as applied to the creatures that live in the element in which we 

 are forbidden to exist!" — Frank Buckland. 



" The ancient belief in the stoppage of sport during a thunder- 

 storm is not strictly true." — David Foster. 



