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fly). (The editor has here added to the author's hst, 

 and remarked on those flies which he has proved to be 

 the best.) 



The virtues of the Red Spinner for late evening 

 fishing can hardly be over-estimated, and with the 

 addition of a few duns, spinners, midges, sand, sedge 

 and cinnamon flies, the angler can fish anywhere where 

 trout are to be found. 



Needless to remark, the nearer the artificial fly 

 approaches in imitation to the natural, the greater the 

 success that will be obtained. The late Francis Francis, 

 who, by the way, has written the best book on angling 

 ever produced, avowed his belief in using only black, 

 brown, red, and blue flies, together with the Hare's 

 Ear, as being of greater service than all the colours of 

 the rainbow. 



There are two different styles of fishing for trout, 

 viz., with a 'wet' and a 'dry' fly. No hard-and-fast 

 rule can possibly be laid down for the adoption of 

 either method, and circumstances must control the 

 angler as to which of the two styles must be used. 



In clear, still streams a dry fly will do a very great 

 deal, and is often the only way of killing fish; but 

 where the water is rough and rapid, such a system 

 cannot be used, and the 'wet' sunk fly must be adopted, 

 and is frequently the best way to kill fish in either 

 water when the weather is rough. When a stream is 

 very rapid, it is at times necessary to fix a shot or two 

 on the casting-line, in order to somewhat delay the 

 passage of the fly, and afford the fish time to see and 

 seize it. 



I once, when salmon-fishing in the Cruives Pool, on 

 the Beauly, adopted this plan of shotting my cast, and 



