CHAPTER IV. 
In selection of Flies, colour, not form—Old rule, “Light fly 
Jor darkness,” &e. rather to be. reversed—Fastening for 
Casting-line—Ditto for Bob-flies—Make-shift Gaff—Cut- 
and-thrust Rod-spear—Simple Clearing-line—Fastening 
Jor loose Reel—Fish slowly with Fly—Straight line— 
Hair casting-lines—Tailing fly with “ Gentle” —Fishing 
near Geneva—Versoixa—Eau de Lyon—Lines on Versoix 
—In Trailing, side neat shore best—In Sea-fishing, stern 
of boat better than bow.’ 
AM persuaded that for fly-fishing colour, not 
form, is the principal thing to be looked to 
in the selection of flies. This scarcely any one 
can doubt who has seen—perhaps with a feeling 
akin to envy—the advantage which a ‘provincial 
furnished with coarse tackle and the roughest 
home-made flies has on a river which he knows, 
over another (possibly a better fisherman) who 
comes to it elaborately equipped, and with his 
book stored with the choicest specimens of Bow- 
ness’ art, but ignorant of the exact colour to 
adopt. Had I wanted a convincing proof of this, 
it was afforded me some years ago whilst fishing 
