56 FLY-FISHING ASTD FLY-MAKINO. 



CHAPTER III. 

 TROUT FLY-MAKING. 



The art of fly-dressing is a most beautiful one and 

 more than repays him who studies it as he goes along 

 creating things of beauty ; moreover, it grows on his in- 

 clinations, and I personally know several gentlemen, and 

 even ladies, whose spare time is filled up most agreeably, 

 and to their own profit, be it said, by fly-making. Ay ! 

 and their flies outshine, in some particulars, even the 



tend, 



Fig. 19. TROUT FLY SHOWING DIFFERENT PARTS. 



finished productions of professional tiers, especially in 

 faithfulness to nature ; for, of course, one of the primal 

 objects in fly-tying is to imitate nature closely a fact of 

 which the often hard-worked and badly paid professional 

 cannot always reduce to practice, if he would. The sal- 

 mon fly is, of course, not an imitation ; rather let us 

 call it a "poem of color," the beauty and efficiency 

 of which depends on the variety and harmony of its 

 component parts. 



It is not remarkable that fly-makin<r has been practiced 



