54 THE SCIENCE OF DRY FLY FISHING. 



untakable, your luck villainous, but fortune will turn. The 

 apparently worst day in the fishing calendar may produce the 

 biggest fish. 



Now try that rise on the other side. Keep well down 

 and see that your fly is clean and dry before casting. Why, 

 you have risen two fish and touched them both ! Allow me 

 to look at that fly. Ah ! I thought so. Now feel the point 

 of your hook, and you will find that it has become blunted, 

 perhaps from having been carelessly broken out of the last 

 fish, or may be from catching it in that bough a minute 

 ago. 



The fine splitting file on the disgorger in my knife 

 now becomes useful. Two or three applications of the 

 file to the point of the hook, and the hook has as fine a 

 needle point as ever. It does not take more than five seconds 

 to sharpen the point of a hook. It renews the usefulness 

 of the fly, and saves time ; therefore, always carry a file. 

 It may be that the point of the last fly in your fly book has 

 become blunted, and if you have no file you will most 

 likely lose your fish and spoil the rest of your day's sport. 

 In my original design for this knife I omitted the screw driver, 

 and I owe the idea of this useful tool to Mr. Marston, senior, 

 and Mr. R. B. Marston, who separately, when looking at the 

 knife, suggested that it only wanted a screw driver to make it 

 perfect. I was only too happy to avail myself of their dual 

 experience. Mr. Marston, senior, "The Amateur Angler," 

 has just published some delightful fishing stories entitled 



