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shoulders and grey tippet/' Mr. Henderson goes 

 on to say : 



Here was a fly that certainly did show startlingly in black 

 water, and the result was that on the morrow I took eight grilse 

 and rose eight more fish, while no angler in the neighbourhood 

 captured more than a couple. It was still more remarkable that 

 on none of my later fishings had I any great success with this fly 

 yclept the " William Henderson." Some years afterwards the 

 idea o f a white-bodied fly was improved upon both by Mr. W. 

 Greenwell and Mr. P. S. Wilkinson. The former invented a fly 

 whose chief characteristic was a pale blue silk and silver body, 

 whilst the latter boldly struck out into the notion of a body of 

 silver tinsel. These flies are now acknowledged to be among 

 the best used on the river, if not the very best. 



If Mr. Wilkinson was the first fly-dresser to use a 

 silver body at all he deserves a statue to his memory, 

 for the tinsel body (gold tinsel is as effective in some 

 conditions) is a very important matter in salmon 

 fishing, as will be seen in the next note. Canon 

 Greenwell was the inventor of that invaluable trout 

 fly the Greenwell's Glory, which is as famous as any 

 fly in the whole cabinet of trout patterns. 



The Jock Scott is perhaps the best known salmon 

 fly there is, partly because of its bold contrast of 

 colours, black and orange, but partly because of its 

 simple and easily remembered name. When the 

 novelist or story-writer portrays an angler and de- 

 sires to make him life-like or convincing he, or she, 

 almost always attaches a Jock Scott to his cast. 

 It is the fly, par excellence, which is known to the 

 great outer world, and I suppose that this is due to 

 the mnemonic quality of its name. It will not be 

 without interest to give the history of this fly which 



