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especially if repeated more than once, tends to 

 make the salmon suspicious of some cheat or 

 other; and that by substituting a smaller and 

 less glaring artifice, it may possibly disarm 

 him of his doubts. 



In making flies I am very particular in one 

 respect and that is, so arranging the wings, 

 be they mixed or not, as to prevent them from 

 playing with an uneven motion, the hook being 

 directly undermost, and never on one side. 

 Fanciful as the brotherhood is, in respect to 

 the colour, size, tinsel, and feathers of flies, I 

 began making them, not after any particular 

 pattern, but principally in accordance with what 

 the scanty materials at hand would permit, as 

 to colour and character in general. One of my 

 nondescripts, which the salmon seemed to fancy, 

 was exhibited by a friend of mine to a well- 

 known frequenter of the banks of the Dovey, 

 who not only sold flies to the strangers who 

 came there, but taught them how and where 

 to throw them. When his eyes fell upon the 



