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day when the ouananiche were rising all around us 

 in the most aggravating manner without apparently 

 even looking at our flies at all. They were evidently 

 feeding upon insect food, but out of the collection of 

 flies then upon the water it was difficult to say which 

 they were taking. As soon as we could manage to 

 secure a fish at all Mr. Scott cut open its stomach and 

 found it nearly full of a small, dun-colored, yellow- 

 bodied fly, of which the B. A. Scott is a good imi- 

 tation. We caught several of the natural insects that 

 day, and, after impaling them upon our hooks, had 

 good sport with the ouananiche. When the fly al- 

 ready mentioned had been tied from our patterns of 

 the natural insect, it was, as I thought, appropriately 

 named the " B. A. Scott," and I sent a specimen to Mr. 

 A. N. Cheney, of Glens Falls. He recognized it at 

 once as almost identical with the " General Hooker," 

 which was first tied by Miss Sara McBride. The re- 

 semblance between the two is all but perfect, and at 

 first sight Mr. Cheney failed to notice any distinction. 

 In view of the great amount of confusion created by 

 the unnecessary multiplicity of the names of flies, I 

 have always felt that after Mr. Cheney's discovery it 

 would have been well to avoid the double name in 

 this case, notwithstanding the fact that the B. A. Scott 

 was undoubtedly a new pattern so far as the gentle- 

 man is concerned after whom it was named. But the 

 firm which had it tied discovered that it was a killing 

 pattern, and one certain to be in large demand for 

 ouananiche fishing, and so insisted upon the small dif- 

 ference and the special name of their new pattern. 

 To me the difference is so imperceptible that I cannot 



