128 Fly-making a Scientific and Pleasant Art. 



MISCELLANEOUS AKTICLES USED IN DRESSING TROUT AND 

 SALMON FLIES. 



1. Hooks of all sizes, Limerick or Round-bend. 



2. Silks, plain and floss, of all colours and shades (fine for trout flies). 



3. Gut and hair, natural colour and stained. 



4. Gold arid silver tinsels, and threads of various sizes. 



5. Fine-pointed scissors. 



6. Needle for dividing wings. 



7. Tweezers or nippers of strong brass or iron wire. 



8. Phial of spirit varnish. 



9. Shoemakers' wax, and white wax for trout flies. (See receipt.) 

 10. Dubbings of all colours, pig's wool, mohair, wools and worsteds 



of all colours, squirrel's fur and tail, mole's fur, water-rat's fur, 

 hare's lug, combings of cow-hair, monkey's fur, camlet's, mar- 

 tin's fur, fox's lug and breast fur, &c. 



The necessity of using artificial flies undoubtedly arose 

 from the inability to use such small insects in their natural 

 state. Fly-making is a delicate and minute mechanical 

 process, which is but imperfectly described by the best 

 written instructions, and which can only be effectually 

 learned by imitation, as the making of a coat or a shoe, 

 &c. Let the young Angler get some friend who under- 

 stands fly-making to give him but one lesson in the craft, 

 and the following instructions, carefully carried out, will 

 complete his education, and render him an adept in the 

 art. 



To dress a fly, which shall imitate the colours and form 

 of the insects to be represented, sufficiently well to deceive 

 the quick- sighted and wary trout, is an art most delight- 

 ful in practice, and one which very materially tends to 

 the otherwise doubtful success of the Fly-fisher. I would 

 recommend every person desirous of having sport to en- 

 deavour to attain the knack of dressing them neatly and 

 speedily. Experience proves that trout feed eagerly for 

 hours on one kind of fly, and that they will suddenly 

 desert their late favourite for another species, though the 



