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recorded successful sport that not many are required 

 on chalk streams in fact, not a quarter of the one 

 hundred patterns which experts made out lists of a 

 decade ago. I have gone through a season with 

 one pattern of fly only. (See Field, March 18th, 

 IS<)<), and December 17th, 1904.) 



I submit the following reduced list of trout and 

 grayling flies, all to be dressed on Hutchinson's 

 1)1 ue sneck-bend, turned -up eyed-hooks in varying 

 sizes, according to circumstances, from No. 000 to 

 No, 1, and for evening fishing, when phyrganida? arc 

 on the wing, Nos. 2 and 3. All are not, of course, 

 needed by my novice (to whom I will now again 

 address myself), but I do not like to omit any 

 one of them ; you will soon learn to discriminate 

 as to those you like best, and as you improve 

 in practice you will settle down to a few 

 favourites. 



TROUT FLIES. 



lied quill, with dark starling double wings and 

 red gamecock's hackles ; olive quill, with pale, 

 medium, and dark wings (both these patterns ma} 

 be varied with a flat gold or silver tag) ; ginger 

 quill, blue quill, gold-ribbed hare's ear, Salisbury 

 red-spinner, with badger hackle ; Wickham's fancy, 

 silver sedge ; black gnats of both sexes, woodcock 

 quill, Lock's fancy, iron blue, brown sedge, and 



