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had no doubt but they would kill there, as I had used 

 them with great success on the Test and Itchin, Hampshire, 

 the Stour, Canterbury, and many other fine waters. 

 Gentlemen anglers, who fished the Wye, said no one 

 could dress an artificial drake to kill on those streams. 

 The steward wished me to come in the next drake season 

 .and try my floating flies, to which I consented ; and on 

 the 5th of June, 1865, I went down, with great confidence, 

 having a first-class assortment of artificial floating drakes. 

 I found several anglers waiting at the Peacock Inn for 

 the fly to come up. I went up to Bakewell, as I knew 

 from past experience the fly would rise there two or three 

 days before it did in Rowsley Meadows. At the Rutland 

 Arms, Bakewell, I met a number of anglers waiting for 

 the fly to appear. An elderly gentleman, named Hobson, 

 asked me if I was son to old Frank Ogden, who was well 

 known to be the best fisherman that ever threw a line on 

 the Wye ? I replied in the affirmative. He said : " Then 

 it was your father who gave me my first lesson in the 

 gentle craft ; and for a number of years I had the pleasure 

 of meeting him on the Wye and Derwent, where we had 

 great sport together." He then asked me if I intended 

 to use the natural drake. I informed him that I was 

 come at the request of the duke's steward to test my 

 floating drakes or May flies. He wished to see them. I 

 took out my box and they all indulged in a hearty laugh 

 at them, Mr. Hobson saying if he had not known me to 

 be an angler born, he should call me a fool to bring those 

 butterfly things to kill fish on their fine waters. I told 

 him I had every confidence that I should kill fish with 



