306 FISHING IN AMEEICAN WATERS. 



The rows of samples include the useful sizes to mount with 

 flies for salmon and large brook trout, or to use for bait in 

 the river fishings for commoner fish. The upper row repre- 

 sent Adlington & Hutchinson's needle-pointed round-bends. 

 This is also an excellent hook for small striped bass and black 

 bass, and generally for fishing when a float is used. 



The lower row of Sproat bend hooks are samples of the 

 manufacture of Hutchinson & Sons, intended for the same 

 uses as the foregoing. This bend is better than the round 

 one for fish with a small mouth, like the kingfish. The Sproat 

 bend appears to be the neplus ultra in the form and quality 

 of a fish-hook. The Virginia hook is quite similar in its short- 

 ness of nib and low bend, while the Kinsey or Pennsylvania 

 hook is lower still in the nib and wider in the bend, and, being 

 shorter from the point of the hook to the bend or centre of 

 draught, is preferred by many ; but my experience in losing 

 large fish by their springing the hook out induces me to pre- 

 fer a hook of larger wire, finer finish, and tempered better. 

 These hooks enlarge gradually to No. 20, and in quality are 

 truly superior. 



SALMON FLIES. 



The flies on the upper row are tied on the Adlington hook 

 with Sproat bend, while those of the lower row are mounted 

 on the round bend, of numbers from 15 to 18. 



Fig. 1. Wing of diagonally barred feathers from under side of snipe's wing, in drab 

 and black ; dark blue and black pig's-wool hackle ; gold tail. Fig. 2. Mottled black 

 and white wing from a turkey's tail ; body of olive-colored mohair and black hackle, 

 with brown shoulders, and orange peacock tail. Fig. 3. Black and drab diagonally 

 barred wing, blue and claret hackle body, with gold shoulder; tail of gold and 

 green. Fig. 4. Brown wings and legs, drab body, all of gutta-percha ; glass eyes. 

 Fig. 5. Ribbed drab wing and antennae ; legs and body of gutta-percha ; reddish- 

 brown mohair shoulders, and black bead eyes. Fig. 6. White miller; white ribbed 

 wings, drab body and legs, red glass eyes. Fig. 7. Brown gutta-percha wings, pur- 

 ple body wound with gold tinsel, recldish-bro\yn mohair shoulders. Fig. 8. Black 

 hackle body wound with gold ; barred duck-wing tail ; argo pheasant wing. Fig. 

 9. Purple body with gold tail ; blue and purple hackle ; tap of the golden pheasant 

 top-knot; brown mallard wings. Fig. 10. Brown and white pheasant wing; gold 

 body and tail; brown hackle shoulders, and black hackle head. Fig. 11. Golden 

 body and tail ; black hackle shoulders, with pheasant and burnt-brown wings. 



Asia has contributed more material for artificial flies in her 

 numerous families of pheasants than has any other quarter of 

 the globe. Neither the South American fox, the barred wing 



