CHAPTER II 



SOMETHING ABOUT SALMON FLIES AS SUCH 



CONSIDERABLE divergence of opinion reasoned 

 and otherwise exists on the subject of salmon 

 flies. But it is not my intention to attempt 

 an analysis of the position here at any rate. 



I should like, however, to take the oppor- 

 tunity of emphasizing one or two points in 

 connection with salmon flies, and of drawing 

 attention to the desirability and the possi- 

 bility of evolving some sort of order out 

 of what is, too often, a somewhat chaotic state 

 of affairs, my object being to help the reader 

 to grasp the significance of salmon flies gener- 

 ally by ultimately presenting him with a 

 classification of salmon flies on a practical 

 basis. 



The reader, if he be a trout fisher, must, 

 of course, at the outset entirely dissociate 

 from his mind any analogy of the salmon fly 

 to the trout fly, qud fly. The trout fly is 



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