CHOICE OF FLY. 205 



CHOICE OF FLY. 



LEGENDARY FAVOURITES A FISHERMAN'S FETISH 



THE BLACK GNAT ADVENTURE WITH AN 



ALEXANDRA. 



What is there they will not choose ? 

 If only you will but oppose their choice. 



BYEON. 



REMEMBERING in the early days of fly 

 fishing how exercised I was over this 

 subject, I had intended tabulating month 

 by month a list of flies recommended for use. 

 This however seems to me quite unnecessary 

 and probably confusing. 



In the first place such a list could not but 

 read as an evident crib from other far better 

 books, as well as from the excellent coloured 

 catalogues of Messrs. Hardy Brothers and other 

 first rate tackle makers. Nor has my experience 

 of rivers been sufficiently diverse to attempt to 

 lay down any law upon so wide a subject. 

 With some men a particular fly is a fetish. 



