THE ANGLER AND HIS LURES 149 



inspection of the flies shown on the accompany- 

 ing plate. Here we have four views of a 

 " Gordon " as it passed in front of a fish. The 

 fly has been thrown across the pool into the 

 main light, and as it swings down with the 

 light behind it, it is quite dull; but as the 

 fly comes round, in front of the salmon, the 

 light catches it, and there is a glint from body 

 and hackle. The attention of the fish is arrested, 

 and, as the fly swings still farther round, it 

 flashes, as shoWn in the photographs on the 

 left; the salmon follows up the flashing fly and 

 seizes the hook. 



Fished from the other bank, the fly would 

 be flashing as it came up to the salmon; as it 

 passed the fish it would become dull and disap- 

 pear, and there would be no inducement to the 

 fish to follow it up. 



In these photographs I would draw attention 

 to the fact that the eye on the junglecock wing 

 flashes quite as brilliantly as the silver twist on 

 the body. 



Many wet trout flies are dressed with the 

 intention of imitating a special natural fly. It 

 is surprising to what extent many of these 

 artificial flies flash. On the lower half of the 



