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CHAPTER XVIII. 



Hints on the Manufacture of Salmon Flies Sea-trout Fishing 

 Useful Sea-trout Flies Conclusion. 



IT is absolutely impossible to attempt to give any 

 instruction to the reader regarding the manu- 

 facture of salmon-flies without the aid of numerous 

 illustrations ; and even then I very much doubt if 

 he would acquire the art without the expenditure 

 of many weeks and months of toil, and numerous 

 disappointments. To anyone who may be de- 

 sirous of learning to tie his own salmon-flies 

 and I most strongly recommend every salmon 

 fisherman to learn I would give the following 

 advice, viz., to go to some really good professional 

 and take a few lessons. He will learn more in 

 some three or four hours than in the same number 

 of years without such assistance. 



I consider that it is infinitely more difficult to 

 learn to tie a salmon-fly really well, than to tie 

 a trout-fly. The latter are small, fidgety, and 

 require very good sight ; but the difficulty in 

 making a salmon-fly consists in building the 



