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CHAPTER XI. 



ON FLY MAKING. 



FLIES FOR TROUT AND GRAYLING FISHING; THE 

 ADVISABILITY OF COPYING NATURE ; UP- 

 WINGED AND FLAT- WINGED ARTIFICIALS ; 

 DRESSINGS FOR THE DUNS, BROWNS, MAY 

 FLIES, OR DRAKES ; FLAT- WINGED WATER 

 FLIES ; LAND FLIES ; How TO DRESS A 

 HACKLE FLY, PALMER, ETC. ; SALMON FLIES. 



TROUT AND GRAYLING FLIES. A really solid 

 advantage the amateur fly-maker enjoys is his 

 ever available ability to produce copies of any 

 special insect the fish may just then be regaling 

 themselves upon, when other lures fail to meet with 

 due appreciation. Trout are often most tantalizingly 

 fastidious ; and though occasionally, at rare intervals, 

 they are to be taken by almost anything in the shape 

 of a fly, it is merely a reckless spirit of wantonness 

 that is displayed, in which case sport will prove but 

 indifferent, the fish in reality being merely playing 

 and not feeding. Trout will take down almost any- 

 thing when in this mood ; bits of leaves, twigs, and 

 other floating atoms, we have repeatedly seen them 

 close their teeth upon, when taking observations from 



