ANGLING REQUISITES, FOR SEASON 1887. 65 



"We find Foster's eyed flies to be very good ; they are admirably dressed."- 

 Fishing Gazette, Sept. 25th, 1886. 



March Brown, 



Olive Dun, and 



Iron Blue. 



These three flies are natural favourites with the fish, and creditable 

 copies cannot fail to kill anywhere better than others having no counter- 

 parts in nature. 



For grayling the 



Needle Fly, 



Grey Palmer, and 



October Dun, 



are the best all-round killers. The habitual scarcity of surface food 

 in the late autumn months renders the hosts of fancy flies more 

 useful ; hence the reputation of the Bumbles, and the ever-growing 

 varieties of tinselled and tagged " flies." These, when no fish are seen 

 to rise, are to be often used with effect. 



The best and wisest course, we would emphasise and repeat by way 

 of conclusion, is that of plying the flies upon which the fish are feeding, 

 and that are seen prevalent at any time. Cotton defined and enhanced 

 the usefulness of a fly list by portioning it to the months and season, 

 each fly so portioned being supposed to bear some resemblance to living 

 insects found at the period named, and forming food for fish ; so did 

 Ronalds and his immediate copyists, and so, lastly, did the author of 

 the new standard work on angling, viz., the " Scientific Angler." 

 Aquatic naturalists, in short, are unanimous on this all-important point 

 and conclusion, " that no other principle can possibly succeed so well 

 under the conditions present on well-whipped waters, wherever situate, 

 than that of presenting imitations of flies ' on ' whilst fishing at any 

 given time." 



"The best floating drake that I know of is one tied by Fosters, of Ashbourne 

 Canadian wood-duck wings, with hollow wheaten straw body." Sporting and 

 Dramatic News, June fth, 1886. 



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