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are not, it must then be your business to discover what 

 that fly is, and put it on. I will here give another proof 

 that the artificial is taken for the exact natural fly it is 

 meant to imitate. If at any time you happen not to have 

 the identical fly the fish are rising at in your book, and 

 try to effect a compromise by offering them another, 

 something resembling it, you will generally find that 

 although you do succeed in rising fish, they almost 

 invariably come short, your fly looking like the one they 

 are feeding on, until they are quite close to it, when they 

 perceive that it is not the exact thing, and shy off at the 

 last moment. I do not think that any proof can be more 

 convincing. 



In heavy colored water use two flies ; the leading one 

 should be one of the flies on the water, tied the largest 

 size of that fly ; if it is a windy day, the cow-dung is a 

 good fly, and an orange or rough red palmer for a dropper. 

 The stone fly is not good in colored water. If you are 

 fishing at any time of the year on an exceptionally cold 

 day for that season, and when there are no fly on the 

 water, you do not want to go home, and yet do not know 

 what fly to use, always try the blue dun tied buzz and 

 the male willow, both small ; on such a day you have 

 more chance of killing with these flies than with any- 



