102 SALMON FISHING. 



Somersetshire ; and for merely keeping the leather 

 pliant when not in use, the following will be found 

 an excellent mixture : 



Waterproofing for boots, &c. Burgundy pitch, I oz. ; 

 bees' wax, 2 oz. ; turpentine, 2 oz. ; neatsfoot oil, I pint. 

 The turpentine should be added just before taking the com- 

 position off the fire. 



SALMON AND GRILSE FLIES. 



I shall make no attempt at giving a code of in- 

 structions for Salmon-fly making : it has been 

 already done as far as accurate verbal description 

 and woodcuts can do it, by several living authors, 

 and very thoroughly and completely by the late 

 Mr. Blacker, in a charming little volume illustrated 

 by the actual flies. This, however, is a monograph, 

 and however beautiful or interesting as a work of 

 art, is too laborious and studious for an age in 

 which so much has to be done in every twenty- 

 four hours that even minutes are jealously econo- 

 mized. If anglers wish to know how to make a 

 fly themselves a most useful and important 

 knowledge a few lessons from a practical fly-tier 

 will be worth volumes of precept. It is, however, 

 an art requiring much nicety and delicacy of 

 manipulation, and not to be acquired in any degree 



