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FISHING IN AMEEICAN WATERS. 



together with the best materials, from wherever on earth 

 they are to be obtained. Or he may be supplied in Boston, 

 Montreal, Quebec, or at Rome, Rochester, or Mumford, 1 New 

 York. 



In addition to an extensive assortment of flies, the angler 

 should carry silks, wools, mohair, duffings, and feathers of va- 

 rious colors, gold and silver threads and tinsels, fine hooks, 

 and selected gut, so that he may occasionally extemporize a 

 cast of flies, which, though not so finely tied, may combine 

 size and colors attractive for the finny epicures which show 

 themselves fastidious about putting in an appearance. This 

 ^course is pursued by many experienced anglers, whom, I may 

 justly add, are great bunglers at tying a fly or properly 

 mounting a hook. Half a dozen lessons from Pritchard 

 Brothers, or from one of the fly-tyers for Andrew Clerk & 

 Co., could scarcely fail of being useful to the student of con- 

 templative philosophy. 



SECTION SECOND. 



SELECT ARTIFICIAL TROUT-FLIES. 



No. 1. Black Gnat Black ostrich-feather body, wings of pale starling's feather, drab 

 tail and antennae. 2. Red Ibis. Red body, wound with gold or silver cord ; brown 

 hackle and tail, red ibis-feather wings. 3. Wilson's Professor. Yellow gut body, 

 mountedby M'Bride, of Mumford, N. Y. ; red ibis tail headed with gold tinsel, brown 

 hackle, gray mallard wing. 4. Stone Fly Green drake wing and hackle, drab body 

 and tail. 5. Pritchard's Stone Fly. Composition body, drab wings, tail, and anten- 

 nae. 6. Cinnamon Fly. Orange body, ash-colored wings, brown hackle and tail. 

 7. Green Drake. Silver body, tipped with gold ; short black hackle, black head, 

 brown tail ; wings and shoulders of green drake feather. 



