66 FOSTER'S LIST OP REFINED AND IMPROVED 



CERTIFICATES. 



" Foster's flies, in my humble opinion, are second to none, if not 

 superior in many respects to any." Writer in Bell's Life, Oct. 27, 1883. 



" Their trout flies are extremely well dressed, whilst those tied for 

 salmon and sea trout are among the most tasteful we have seen."- 

 Field, Aug., 1881. 



" Foster Bros.' Flies, in our opinion (and that of most of our angling 

 friends) are unequalled." Writer in Field, Oct. 27, 1883. 



"FOSTER'S BUMBLES. Messrs. D. and W. Foster, of Ashbourne, 

 Derbyshire, whose celebrated bumbles have been so often referred to 

 by us as being among the best flies it is possible to use for grayling or 

 trout, send us samples of still finer tied varieties. Thej sight of a 

 'honey dun bumble' always reminds us of many a good trout and 

 grayling killed with it. Then we have the ' mulberry bumble,' a stan- 

 dard favourite of ours, which is a capital little fly. We have never done 

 so much with the ' light ' and ' rough ' bumbles as with the ' honey ' and 

 ' mulberry,' though they are both good flies for the last hour's fishing, 

 when something a little more showy is wanted. The ' furnace bumble,' 

 is an indispensable fly in a cast of bumbles, and will kill all the year 

 round. Gut is beautifully fine." Fishing Gazette ', Sept. 13, 1883. 



" We like their flies dressed with upright wings, full feathered, for dry 

 fly fishing." Leader in Fishing Gazette, Sept. 15, 1883. 



" The bumbles and Derbyshire duns kill well upon the Yore and 

 Wharfe ; especially is this the case with the splendid series of bumbles 

 and upwinged duns manufactured by Messrs. Foster Bros., of Ash- 

 bourne." Francis M. Walbram, in the Fishing Gazette, Oct. 28, 1883. 



"We opened with an admirable example of Foster's, of Ashbourne. 

 I never landed, in a shorter time, seventeen brace of more beautiful 

 trout. My friend, who is a tyro at the art, came under a fourth of my 

 take, but he was perfectly satisfied. Foster's May fly (Green Drake) 

 will please anybody. It is not a large pattern, but with a well covered 

 body, and for an hour, at least, when my friend could not stir a fish with 



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