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imitations of them used as dry flies. I 

 give the exact dressing of the green cater- 

 pillar ; but the other dressings must be 

 left to the discretion of the fisherman for 

 alterations, as there are so many sorts of 

 small caterpillars, some of them being ex- 

 tremely rare in one place and common in 

 another. 



Should the fisherman wish to see the 

 sort of caterpillar commonest where he is 

 fishing, he must seek them himself. Those 

 only are useful which are on the trees 

 overhanging the water. If there are oak 

 trees the caterpillars will probably be 

 green, and many kinds of caterpillars will 

 be found which have rolled themselves up 

 in the leaves of the tree upon which they 

 live. I have no doubt that this imitation 

 caterpillar will be looked upon as a poach- 

 ing implement, but it is or should be used 

 as a dry fly, and to use it successfully 

 requires as much skill and power of obser- 

 vation as does the use of any imitation of 

 a fly used in a similar manner. 



How to make an Artificial Caterpillar. -A 

 small piece of cork J^ of an inch thick, or 

 less, and nearly twice the length of the 



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