CHAPTER XI 



FLIES 



" (), what a tangled web we weave 

 When first we practise to deceive.'' 



SCOTT, Marmion. 



Or flies and fly making there is no end. Not 

 only has every important river in the British 

 Isles developed its own type, but these types 

 have been intermingled and modified, to the 

 infinite advantage of tackle-makers and the con- 

 fusion of honest anglers. Recently a gallant 

 attempt has been made by Mr. Baden-Powell 

 in the opposite direction, and we are presented 

 with half-a-dozen patterns, in which the advan- 

 tages of all known flies are combined, a series 

 of pocket epitomes of the whole art of fly- 

 tying. When this process is fully developed, 

 we shall no longer be troubled to change our 

 Jock Scot for a Silver Doctor ; the salient 

 features of each will be offered to the fish, 

 combined chemically in a tabloid form. 



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