2 SALMON FLIES 



rents, there is not much reason to grumble 

 at the few score pounds expended towards as 

 complete and representative a collection of 

 these somewhat exotic adornments to every 

 proper salmon fisher's kit, and therefore, at 

 first sight, there would not, perhaps, appear 

 to be much of a case in favour of tying your 

 own flies on the score of economy, though 

 it may, I think, be taken as an undoubted fact 

 that the home-made fly does mean a saving of 

 money. 



Economy, however, is not the whole or the 

 main consideration, for to be able to dress 

 salmon flies, and to do it well, is much more 

 satisfactory in many important respects than to 

 have to depend upon the work of others. 



One does not by any means wish to imply 

 that the shop-tied fly is unsatisfactory. Far 

 from it. Indeed, when it is realized that not 

 one in fifty of the individuals employed in the 

 trade are practical salmon anglers, or have the 

 slightest interest in the future existence of the 

 flies they turn out, it is rather wonderful that 

 shop-tied patterns are as good as they are. 



But for all that, there is an indescribable 

 something about a fly dressed by an expert 



