no The Atlantic Salmon 



the numbers of fish taken by each fly. Total 

 number taken, 353. Of these — 



loi were hooked on Silver Doctor and Dusty Miller. 

 81 were hooked on Jock Scott. 

 16 were hooked on Black Dose. 

 18 were hooked on Lady of Merton. 

 14 were hooked on Durham Ranger. 

 16 were hooked on Black Ferry. 

 21 were hooked on Brown Ferry. 

 86 were hooked on a dozen other varieties. 



It is quite possible we would have killed just as 

 many fish had we been without the first two kinds 

 of flies. Hardly any one is disposed to change a 

 fly the fish are taking, in order that the future 

 angler may be benefited by the experience he 

 thereby gains ; and a fly which has become stand- 

 ard like the " Jock Scott " is accepted without 

 question as one proper to use anywhere, which it 

 doubtless is. Some years since, on the Nepisi- 

 guit, I was told that the only flies the fish would 

 take were the Nepisiguit Gray and the Nicholson, 

 or Blue and Brown (both previously described). 

 The two friends with me used these flies consist- 

 ently, but I stuck to the Jock Scott and Silver 

 Doctor long enough to prove that the salmon took 

 them quite as well. Next year I tried the Gray fly 



