SALMON FISHING. ¥N6 
No alteration whatever is required in the dressing, 
from the smallest Grilse to the largest Shannon flies, ex- 
cept that the hooks, hackles, and wings must be propor- 
tionally larger or smaller. 
The speciality of these flies it will be seen con- 
sists in the arrangement of hackles, which are, in fact, 
double, embracing a “shoulder” hackle, and what 
may perhaps be best described as a “ head hackle ;” the 
body of the fly being made a trifle shorter to admit of 
the additional set. The hackles commonly used in 
Salmon-flies are so small, and necessarily so much 
compressed and pushed out of position by the wings, 
that when in the water they present very little appear- 
ance of movement or life in the water. 
I shall here make no attempt at giving a code é 
instructions for Salmon-fly making: it has been already 
done as far as accurate verbal description and woodcuts 
can do it, by several living authors, and very thoroughly 
and completely by the late Mr. Blacker, in a charming 
little volume illustrated by the actual flies. This, how- 
ever, is a monograph, and however beautiful or inte- 
resting as a work of art, is too laborious and studious for 
an age in which so much has to be done in every twenty- 
four hours that even minutes are jealously economized. 
Anglers of ordinary leisure will find it most convenient 
to have their flies dressed at the tackle-maker’s, and if 
they wish to know how to make a fly themselves—a 
most useful knowledge in emergencies—a few lessons 
