English and American Flies 



ends or points to the drawn gut for 

 general fishing. 



It is generally a pleasure to an Amer- 

 ican writer to do all American products 

 full justice, and not to advocate the 

 purchase abroad of things that are 

 made in this country of equal quality. 

 I have unhesitatingly advised my 

 readers to buy English lines, but I 

 am in much doubt as to what to say 

 about the purchase of flies. Of course, 

 England is the home the birthplace, 

 so to speak of the floating fly, and 

 its use in this country has been so lim- 

 ited that American fly-tiers have not 

 had sufficient encouragement to make 

 efforts to put upon the market a prod- 

 uct that can compete in quality with 

 the English floating insect, or to at- 

 tempt to tie flies in imitation of in- 

 sects found upon American streams. 

 So personally, I think that our most 



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