124 SALMON-FISHING. 



almost any size if it has been carefully selected 

 and tied. 



To give a regular list of Salmon flies would 

 be of trifling or no use to the angler; they 

 would only form mere fanciful arrangements 

 of colours, perplexing combinations, difl'erence 

 without distinction. I have, therefore, only 

 given two as types of the gaudy flies (figs. 1. 

 apd 2. Plate VII.), and a few specimens of the 

 more unpretending kinds, inckiding some of 

 the Butterfly tribe. 



The Trout fisher finds certain flies common 

 to every river, and a very few only confined to 

 certain localities. Most of the flies, therefore, 

 wherein Trout and Grayling delight, being 

 bred in all rivers, are in all rivers good baits, 

 merely because they are there to be found. 



But in Salmon fly-fishing, where are the 

 monsters in nature wherewith we tempt the 

 fish? The Dragon Fly is certainly a gaudy 

 gentleman, but not numerous, and rarely indeed 

 seen upon the water. 



Our Salmon flies are, with one or two excep- 

 tions, nothing but children of fancy, arbitrary 



