306 Fisuinc 1x AMERICAN WATERS. 
The rows of samples include the useful sizes to mount with 
flies for salmon and large brook trout, or to use for bait im 
the river fishings for commoner fish. The upper row repre- 
sent Adlington & Hutchinson’s needle-pointed round-bends. 
This is also an excellent hook for small striped bass and black 
bass, and generally for fishing when a float is used. 
The lower row of Sproat bend hooks are samples of the 
manufacture of Hutchinson & Sons, intended for the same 
uses as the foregoing. This bend is better than the round 
one for fish with a small mouth, like the kingfish. The Sproat 
bend appears to be the ne plus ultra in the form and quality 
of a fish-hook. The Virginia hook is quite similar in its short- 
ness of nib and low bend, while the Kinsey or Pennsylvania 
hook is lower still in the nib and wider in the bend, and, being 
shorter from the point of the hook to the bend or centre of 
draught, is preferred by many; but my experience in losing 
large fish by their springing the hook out induces me to pre- 
fer a hook of larger wire, finer finish, and tempered better. 
These hooks enlarge gradually to No. 20, and in quality are 
truly superior. 
SALMON FLIES, 
The flies on the upper row are tied on the Adlington hook 
with Sproat bend, while those of the lower row are mounted 
on the round bend, of numbers from 15 to 18. 
Fig. 1. Wing of diagonally barred feathers from under side of snipe’s wing, in drab 
and black; dark blue and black pig’s-wool hackle; gold tail. Fig. 2. Mottled black 
and white wing from a turkey’s tail; body of olive-colored mohair and black hackle, 
with brown shoulders, and orange peacock tail. Fig.3. Black and drab diagonally 
barred wing, blue and claret hackle body, with gold shoulder; tail of gold and 
green. Fig. 4. Brown wings and legs, dr ab body, all of gutt a-percha ; glass 
Fig 5. Ribbed drab wing and antenne : legs and body of gutta-percha; red 
brown mohair shoulders, and black bead eyes. Fig. 6. W. hite miller; white ribbed 
wings, drab body and legs, red glass eyes. Fig.7. Brown gutta-percha wings, pur- 
ple body wound with gold tinsel, reddish-brown mohair shoulders. Fig. s. Black 
hackle body wound with gold; barred duck-wing tail; argo pheasant wing. Fig. 
9. Purple body with gold tail ; ‘blue and purple hackle : tail of the golden pheasant 
top-knot; brown mallard wings. Fig.10. Brown and white pheasant wing; gold 
body and tail; brown hackle shoulders, and black hackle head. Fig. 11. “Golden 
body and tail; black hackle shoulders, with pheasant and burnt-brown wings. 
Asia has contributed more material for artificial flies in her 
numerous families of pheasants than has any other quarter of 
the globe. Neither the South American fox, the barred wing 
