A TEST OF THE NEW FLIES 



vary or change, as do those of land insects. The 

 wings never separate, or lie apart; the tail never 

 loses its jaunty, upright appearance; and the feet 

 assume the same position while resting. This is 

 true also of browns and duns: they never lift the 

 wings up, nor spread them out, but always their 

 wings lie flat on the body when they are not in flight. 



The test of my new patterns that have been made 

 are most gratifying to me personally; and I sin- 

 cerely trust that anglers in various localities will 

 select just a few of the copies of the natural insects 

 and try them; I care not upon what conditions, 

 though the result will be much more pleasing to all 

 concerned if the flies are used at the specified time 

 given in the plate charts. Even if tried otherwise 

 — that is, any fly cast at any time — trout will, I 

 think, be induced to rise sooner than with the best 

 fancy fly. 



It would be a very different thing were I endeav- 

 oring to urge upon my brother anglers any new 

 fancy flies, new inventions, unusual or freak flies. 

 I see this being done every season, much to their 

 disadvantage and my own. But the wise angler, I 

 hope, will see the object of this book: to make an- 

 glers for trout follow a scientific method of the 

 highest importance whereby we attain the best there 

 is in angling. 



When this work was begun several years ago, 

 entirely for my own private benefit, I saw in it great 



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