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SCIENCE OF FISHING. 



entire season using only two or three patterns of flies. But 

 even though you do favor a few patterns only, you will want 

 plenty of that kind and you want a convenient method of 

 carrying them, so that you can pick out the very fly you want 

 and separate it from the others with the least possible loss of 

 time and temper. 



Among the books most popular are the Jack Frost, the 

 Cooper, the Mansfield, the Levison, the Orvis, and the Chubb. 

 Modifications of the older styles are also made. In most 

 of the old styles the flies are held by clips of some kind on 

 pages like the page of a book. Some of them have serrated 



A "Lead in" that makes a Minnow Trap of an Ordinary Glass 



Jar. 



edge strips of metal at the ends of the leaves to hold the 

 hooks, and a coiled wire spring in the center to hold the 

 snells straight. Others have the springs arranged longi- 

 tudinally, a separate one for each fly snell, and they keep 

 the snells stretched so that they dry straight and are always 

 held securely, though easily removed. The Levison is of 

 this kind. All of them have felt pads between the leaves 

 to dry the flies after using. 



The Mansfield has removable folders to hold the flies. 

 This, like the loose leaf system is very convenient as the 

 fisherman may carry just as many or a few flies as he 

 likes 



