2O4 Wet- Fly Fishing 



fishing-tackle maker for a fresh supply of 

 a particular fly, much in request at the 

 moment, results in a fiasco such as I have 

 already foreshadowed. But, when it comes 

 to an important order from a far country, 

 and that order gets misunderstood, because, 

 forsooth, the angler merely failed to wire 

 the particular maker or inventor's name, 

 or "scale of hook," such as Bartleet, Hut- 

 chinson, Pennell, etc., the result of such 

 an error, may mean nothing short of ruin 

 to a fishing-trip, and the loss of much time, 

 temper, and money into the bargain. 



I have not touched upon the "eyed" 

 fly, of course, because I generally use 

 "blind" hooks that is, hooks attached to 

 gut for wet-fly work. 



Many years ago, I invented a plan 

 whereby the fly plays, not merely on one 

 slender thread of 4X gut, but on three 

 strands of gut. I do not propose, however, 

 to take up time in describing it in detail. 

 It has been already described, in the pages 

 of the Fishing Gazette and elsewhere. In 

 my own hands, it does admirably, so long 

 as I dress the fly myself, or have it dressed 

 with exceeding carefulness. But fishing- 

 tackle makers and fly-dressers " canna be 

 fashed with such new-fangled inventions; " 



