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Plate 



at»t Of plates. 



Page 

 r^ Blacker Fly-fishing . . Frontispiece, 



2. Titlepage. „, « -^ o 



3. Aneasy method to make the Trout-fly. opposite 3 



4. An easy method of making a Salmon-fly . . .8 



5. The hest method of making a Tront-fly ... 13 



6. To make the Palmer's . . . to face 20 



7. How to make the Salmon-fly . . . .• ^^ 



8. Process of making the Gaudy Salmon-fly. opposite 30 



9. The plate of Feathers . . . to face 34 



10. To make the Winged Larva . . * * 1^ 



11. Plate of Six Flies Catechism . . . .46 



12. Plate of 16 Trout-flies, opposite flies for March b7 

 is! Plate of 16 Flies opposite 65 



14. Plate of Larvas and Green Drakes . opposite 78 



15. Plate of Gaudy Flies, Nos, 1, 2, 3, . opposite 105 



16. Plate of three Salmon-flies, Nos. 4, 5, 6, opposite 108 



17. Plate of four Flies, Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10 . . HO 



18. Large Spring Salmon-fly . . • . . 116 



19. Plate of 7 Flies and Salmon, . . to face XA^ 



20. Plate of Minnow tackle, &c. , . to face 216 



21. Plate of Pike tackle, &c 221 



22» Paternoster and Barbel tackle • . . • 230 



An Extract of a Review of William Slacker's Art of 

 Fly Making^ &fc, ^c. ^c, taken from " Bell's 

 Life in London^'' April 8^/i, 1855. 



" The Art of Fly Making, Angling & Dyeing 

 OF Colours. By W. Blacker, — Mr. Blacker has been 

 a celebrated trout and salmon angler from early boyhood, ^^ 

 and he is known to be the best maker of trout and salmon /O 

 flies alive. We have never seen such flies as his, for 

 naturalness of shape, appropriateness of colour and for 

 beauty and solidity of finish. In making flies he has 



