APPENDIX 



MODERN TWEED FLIES 



A a contrast to the old patterns of salmon 

 fly figured by Scrope, Mr. John Forrest, 

 of Thomas Street, Oxford Street (the 

 London branch of the famous Tweedside 

 tackle house, Forrest and Sons, Kelso) , has very kindly 

 dressed four of the most popular flies invented on 

 Tweedside and used on Tweed to-day, which are 

 shown in the plate at page 130. They are : the 

 Black Ranger, the Greenwell, the Wilkinson, and 

 the Jock Scott. There are, of course, many other 

 favourite flies used by Tweed anglers, but these 

 four are probably to be found on their tippets more 

 often than any others. They are almost as popular 

 on many other rivers, of course. The Wilkinson 

 and the Greenwell were invented respectively by 

 Mr. P. S. Wilkinson and the Rev. (afterwards Canon) 

 W. Greenwell who were fishing companions of the 

 late Mr. William Henderson, author of that attrac- 

 tive book My Life as an Angler, which contains 

 many pages on Tweed fishing. Both flies, as he 

 tells us, seem to have owed their origin to a 

 pattern devised by Henderson " with white 

 silk body, golden-crest wings, blue chatterer 



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