REFACE, 



|T occurred to me, some three or four years 

 ago, that there was again room in this 

 great angling county for a book which 

 should not only give the dressings 

 and seasons of trout flies, but also add the 

 best possible aid in the form of illustrations 

 carefully and accurately coloured, in order to 

 convey to the eye of the beholder correct im- 

 pressions of the size, shape, and colours of those 

 artificial flies which experience has proved are 

 best adapted to the Yorkshire waters. It is a long 

 stretch from the days of Theakston and Jackson 

 to this present time, and in the interval there has 



