ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



other principal species of salmon is the Pacific, 

 chinook or quinnat. A young salmon fresh-run 

 from the sea is called a grilse, and a spent sal- 

 mon is a kelt or "slink." 



Salmon flies are never like unto anything in the 

 air above or waters beneath; they frankly are 

 "fancy" creations, in 

 which jungle-cock and 

 'golden-pheasant feath- 

 ers are most killing 

 factors, and so much 

 diversified that there 

 is no absolute standard 

 for scarcely any of the 

 patterns. Says Ed- 

 ward A. Samuels in 

 his book on salmon 

 fishing (With Fly-Rod 

 and Camera) : "At one 

 time I had upward of 

 four dozen Silver Doc- 

 tors in my books, that 

 I had gathered here 

 and there, and hardly Sea-trout and salmon 



two of them were 



alike. If the body is of pure silver tinsel it 

 matters little how the rest of the fly is made." 

 Durham Ranger, Jock Scott, Butcher, Nichol- 

 son, Popham, Black Dose, Royal Coachman, 

 and Fairy are others that are standard. 

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