53 THE ART OF FISHING. 



CHAPTER XII. 



THAT IT DOES NOT REQUIRE DELICATE, TAPERING FINGERS TO 

 MAKE FLIES EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CASE OF A FIRST-RATE FLY- 

 FISHER WHOSE HANDS AND FINGERS WERE REMARKABLY CLUMSY 



FISHING WITH LirE MAY-FLIES OR DRAKES CONDEMNED, BEING 

 NOT ONLY CRUEL, BUT QUITE UNNECESSARY HOW TO THROW 



YOUR LINES IN WINDY WEATHER AND AT ALL OTHER TIMES 



WITH A FEW OBSERVATIONS IN CONCLUSION. 



IT has been said that women make better flies 

 than men, their fingers being smaller and more 

 tapering. This, however, I do not consider 

 to be the cause, but their patience. Females 

 again are in the habit of employing them- 

 selves in works of extreme neatness ; hence they 

 are more at home in making flies than men. 

 Great practice in both sexes will produce 

 equally good results. Many years ago I knew a 

 man, a first-rate fisher and fly-maker, well known 

 and of great celebrity, a native of Lancashire, I 

 believe. He is said to have begun his fishing 

 excursion regularly in the early spring, com- 

 mencing in the West of England, fishing his 

 way up to the Northern parts of the kingdom, 



