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CHAP. III. 



WHAT FLIES AEE SUITED FOE CANADA ? 



LTHOUaH perfectly 

 aware that only a very 

 general and imperfect 

 answer has been given 

 to the question at the 

 head of the last chap- 

 ter, I prefer asking and 

 answering another in 

 this one, in order that 

 ~ ' the angler who resolves 



to visit the Jacques Cartier, may know with what to try his 

 hand there, and for the reason that I have found the same 

 flies which were successful in that river, as killing as any 

 others in the streams and pools lying to the eastward of 

 Quebec, the description of and mode of approaching 

 which will constitute the greater part of this little book. 



The flies I have invariably found the best are those 

 which the Shannon fishermen call " tassels," that is, the 

 wings of which are composed of a number of minute fibres 



