"It is well to have in youi* fly-books a little of everything, 

 but of gray and brown hackles, coachmen and professors, an 

 abundance."" Bourgeois." 



"When a plump, two-pound trout refuses to eat a tinselled, 

 feathered fraud, I am not the man to refuse him something more 

 edible."" Nessmuk." 



"Many of what are considered fancy flies, because not in 

 standard lists, succeed when the known insect is uncared for." 

 Hewett Wlieatley. 



" The best imitations can scarcely be pronounced good until 

 tested by the fish." Michael TJieakston. 



" The traveller fancies he has seen the country. So he has, 

 the outside of it at least ; but the angler only sees the inside. 

 The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and 

 bird and insect life of the rich river banks, the only part of the 

 landscape where the hand of man has never interfered." Charles 

 Kingsley. 



" The editor of the Angler's Souvenir, from a praiseworthy pride 

 in his nominal ancestors, says the Saxon race were called Anglo, 

 because of their skill with the angle." G. W. Sethune, D.D. 



"Vast varieties of the spinners, beetles, gnats, midges, etc., 

 are perpetually ^progressing, and pouring their winged progeny 

 on the waters daily throughout the season, making ample store 

 and choice for the fish, and a task for the fly-fisher to discover 

 and imitate the fly they prefer." Francis M. Walbran. 



1 ' The single hook salmon flies have been abandoned by nearly 

 all experienced Canadian salmon fishers. The double hook keeps 

 its hold much better and saves many fish that would be lost with 

 the single one. Besides we consider that the double-hook fly 

 floats, or rather, holds its position better in the water than the 

 single hook, for no salmon, with us, will take the fly skipping out 

 of the water, but often take it a foot or more below the surface. 

 The double-hook fly is our recognition of the evolution theory, or 

 doctrine, in the " survival of the fittest." Allan Qilmour. 



