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CHAPTER VIII. 



FLIES FOR EVERY MONTH IN THE YEAR. 



THIS chapter will be a very long one, but it 

 will be the most important, at least so we 

 think, in the whole work. The list of flies we 

 give is numerous perhaps too much so 

 but there is not one that will not kill fish more 

 or less in proper time and place. All those 

 flies are dressed according to our father's 

 method, and we believe we may add, that he 

 was the most successful fly-fisher that appear- 

 ed on the Dove during the last fifty years. 

 We have tried and seen tried other flies in 

 competition with them, and we frankly declare, 

 that we have never known them equalled.* 

 They will kill trout and grayling in every 

 stream of the midland counties, and, we dare 

 assert, in every river in the empire where those 

 fish are to be found. The angler has only to 

 vary their size according to the size of the flies 



* If any person chooses to try London-dressed flies, the 

 best are those made and sold by Messrs. Bowness and Che- 

 valier, 12, Bell Yard, Temple Bar, London. 



