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ever felt puzzkd to know lunv ;i one armed angler manages a salmon rotl, he will be 

 enlightened by studying the illustration entitled ' the necklace.' We hc.irtily 

 congratulate Mr. Kelson upon the publication of this most exhaustive, interesting 

 and instructive work upon the salmon fly and its use." 



DAILY GRAPHIC, Afanh \Gth, 1S96. 



■'. . . .-\s it happens, this is not a rase of the book making the reputation of 

 the writer, for in this instance the author's fame has gone long before. That by no 

 means insignificant community which in proper season, in various portions of the 

 world, pursues the sport of salmon fishing, with the zest of preoccupation, will 

 recognise that no one could be more fitted by acknowledged ability than 

 Mr. G. M. Kelson, for the task which he has taken upon himself Hoth as a tier of 

 flies and a wielder of the rod he is so expert that it is scarcely possible to say at which 

 he excels the more, and as he has done his best to place on record what he knows in 

 these two departments, the reader may be allowed to make his choice. . . . The 

 details dealing with the choice of feathers and hooks, and the hundred and one little 

 expedients in fly-tying which only long experience could evolve, seem to us to leave 

 nothing to be said. From the very beginning the art is taught as we do not remember 

 to have seen it taught before. . . . In describing the various casts, Mr. Kelson is 

 as much at home as in instructing in the tying of flies. . . . Besides these leading 

 topics, all manner of useful hints are given in anticipation of the various troubles and 

 difficulties which beset the angler, who will find it difficult to think of anything he 

 wants to know and not find it alhidctl to in this volume." 



WESTERN MAIL, April i^//,, iS,/.. 



" Mr, Kelson is well known as a mighty lisheiman, and he lias indeed 

 produced a mighty and tremendous book ... It a pity that this sumptuous 

 volume, with its wealth of new ideas, theories and suggestions, should necessarily 

 be reserved for the comparatively few." 



THE POST, Manh 2yd, 1896. 



"... We have seen many attempts to reproduce, by a process of 

 coloured plates, the standard flies of today. . . . Hut it has not hitherto fallen to 

 our lot to peruse a work on the various branches of the subject at all satisfactory or 

 exhaustive. It is, therefore, doubly pleasurable to possess a treatise containing some 

 500 pages in quarto form, written by a gentleman whose name alone suflficicntly 

 guarantees that the information is reliable and authentic. Mr. Kelson has devoted a 



