THE PARTS OF A FLY. 



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orderly formula can be impressed on the mind a formula applicable 

 to any fly, and in such a way that its composition can easily be retained 

 in the mind's eye and reproduced at pleasure. Further, this formula 

 is a valuable aid to the memory in the successive operations of fly- 

 dressing ; the value being in direct ratio to the elaboration of the pattern 

 in hand. 



Those who fix this simple scheme in their minds, will not find, on 

 finishing a fly, that they have left out the body hackle or one of the 

 "butts" ; nor that, in sending to a friend the description of some 

 murderous favourite, they will have written it in such complicated 

 detail as to defy every attempt at reproducing it either in imagination 

 or in material. Order is nature's first law, and it is certainly that of 

 every good Salmon-angler. 



ANALYTICAL DIAGRAM, illustrating parts and proportions of 



Salmon-Fly. 



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G 



J 



DJ 



"JOCK SCOTT" TYPE. 



