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THE AKT OF 

 DYEING FISHING COLOUKS, 



WHICH ARE 



PIG'S HAIE, MOHAIE, FUR, & HACKLES, 

 COMMONLY CALLED DUBBING. 



The great advantage the fly fisher must de- 

 rive from a knowledge of dyeing his colours 

 and hackles is obvious. It affords amusement 

 to the enthusiastic fisher to be acquainted with 

 the various shades required for making his flies 

 to suit the rivers, and the flies become valuable 

 when made of good colours and hackles. 

 Every hackle and colour that is used for 

 making a salmon fly must be of the richest 

 dye imaginable, that they may show brilliant 

 and good to the fish's eye at the bottom of 

 the water, and entice them to rise and take it 

 at the top. The hackles must be taken from 

 old cocks, both the neck and saddle ones, as 



