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the fish rose boldly at the first dropper, 

 not one took any notice of the other 

 flies." 



Colonel Walker also had much greater 

 success with flies dressed with the wings 

 in the natural position than with any 

 others. In fact, for several consecutive 

 days, on different occasions he caught no 

 fish except with my flies, though he did 

 not use them more than flies dressed in 

 the ordinary way. 



Several other fishermen have told me 

 that their experiments with my imitations 

 have produced similar results. 



Mr. H. H. Brown, of the Piscatorial 

 Society, after I had read a paper to that 

 Society 011 my theory of the right way to 

 dress trout flies, described a very interest- 

 ing experience which he had one day when 

 out fishing, and which bears directly on 

 this theory. While out fishing some time 

 ago, he rested on a bridge over the river 

 in which he was fishing. There were a 

 great number of Alders about, and on ob- 

 serving some fish in the water some little 

 distance below the bridge, he caught some 

 Alders, pinched their heads slightly in 



