The Angler's Secret 



manufacturers, though every careful ang- 

 ler is expected to be able to tie a fly or 

 two on some occasions, just as every field 

 sportsman should know how to load his 

 .gun shells in cases of emergency. 



Though there are thousands of different 

 shades and colors and dozens of sizes fol- 

 lowed in making the artificial fly, there 

 are but two distinct archetypes of the fly 

 proper, if we exclude the English two- 

 hook idea, which is merely the ordinary 

 lure with two hooks instead of one. The 

 difference in the two distinct designs from 

 which the various patterns are made, 

 though of marked degree, is hard for the 

 tyro to distinguish, and as the majority 

 of young anglers have never had this 

 difference clearly pictured I will proceed 

 to describe the matter in a brief word or 

 two. The artificial trout fly known to us 

 all is shaped thus: the wings flowing 

 away from the shank of the hook in the 

 opposite direction to the point ; while the 

 other pattern, which is known as the flut- 



