90 NOTES FOR THE 



public opinion, by sweeping tbese rivers with 

 their nets in open daylight ! 



It is singular, in a country such as Wales, 

 how very few fish tackle makers and vendors 

 there are. We cannot call to mind one anywhere 

 except at Bala. Sometimes a shoemaker or a 

 watchmaker exposes a few flies or lines in his 

 windows, but a regular fish tackle maker you 

 will not meet with anywhere, that we are aware of 

 except at Bala. Here, however, is a most excel- 

 lent one : Griffith Jones, who is also a saddler, 

 and whose shop is exactly opposite the hotel. 

 His stock of flies is always well kept up, and 

 generally made with great judgment; while tackle 

 of every kind, rods, nets, panniers, &c , are to 

 be had of the very best sort, and in great variety. 

 We seldom pass through Bala without refitting 

 some part of our accoutrements, and if we want 

 flies made to pattern, send them to Griffith Jones 

 by post, wherever we may be. 



The favourite flies in the Dee are the March 

 Brown, and the Yellow and Blue Duns, with 

 sometimes a Coch-a-byndu as a dropper, or a Eed 

 spinner for the tail fly. At times the Yellow dun 

 with a body formed of orange dubbing is the 

 | most killing, especially in the streams about 

 Corwen. The best way, however, for a stranger, 

 here and elsewhere, is to appeal to the judgment 



