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CHAPTER VIII. 



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The Alder Fly Sedge-flies The Grannom The Needle 

 Brown The Silver Horns The Hawthorn Fly The 

 Peacock Fly The Gold-eyed Gauze- wing The Black 

 Gnat The Red Ant The Cowdung-fly The Coch-y- 

 bonddhu Fancy Flies The 'Wickham's Fancy' The 

 Red Tag The Coachman The Governor The Orange 

 Bumble The Claret Bumble .... 166189 



CHAPTER IX. 



Mr. Halford's Work, ' Floating Flies, and how to Dress them ' 

 The Experience of an Amateur Fly-tyer Mr. George 

 Currell Pleasure to be derived from the Ability to tie 

 one's own Flies Advice to Beginners Fly-tying Vices 

 Mr. Holland's Pattern of Vice A Vice and its Vices- 

 Good and Bad Silk Waxing Silk Varnishing Recipe 

 for Varnish Good Materials Necessary Order and Dis- 

 orderScissors Tweezers Utility of Wooden Trays 

 Fly-tying by Lamplight Eyeglass for Fly-tying The 

 Use of a Trout-rod Casting with a Trout-rod Different 

 Styles of Casting How to Cast Overhead and Steeple 

 Casting Casting Horizontally Switching Casting in 

 Windy Weather Casting Dead against Wind Casting 

 with a Cross-wind Utility of changing Mode of Casting 

 Use of Slack Line Striking : the Right and the Wrong 

 Way Reasons for not Striking from the Reel The 

 Limbridge Trout ..... 190212 



CHAPTER X. 



Where to Cast Keeping out of Sight Advantages and Dis- 

 advantages of Wading Streams apparently Barren 

 Likely Spots A Quiet Way of doing Things Much ado 

 about nothing Where to find Fish Banks should not be 

 shaken Fishing directly Down-stream unadvisable How 

 to cast Down-stream ' Every Fish has its Angle' Wet-fly 

 and Dry-fly The Virtue of Humility Why a Dry-fly fails 



