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bait ; and is to be communicated to the fly by 

 drawing it quickly toward you for a few inches, 

 stopping suddenly, and again drawing. This 

 will not only give motion to the whole mass, 

 but a seemingly separate motion to the wings ; 

 — exhibiting, therefore, a more lively appear- 

 ance of the whole than can be given by any 

 other means. Fig. 3. Plate VIII. is incom- 

 parably the best fly with which I am acquainted 

 for producing this effect; the play of the 

 Peacock's strands is perfection. 



With this fly, Captain Russell has performed 

 this spring two very remarkable feats. He 

 has killed with it, and it alone, nine fish, and 

 raised many more. Nor has he taken a single 

 Salmon with any other fly, although he has 

 tried a variety. It is thus proved to be an 

 admirable bait, and well deserving the name of 

 " the Captain," which it has, in consequence of 

 the above, been christened. The other singu- 

 lar circumstance is this : — One of the Salmon 

 he took had, when captured, an artificial 

 March Brown, with a maggot on the hook, 

 sticking in his jaw ; and to which was attached 

 nearly three yards of gut, and another small 

 I 



