English and American Flies 



ends or points to the drawn gut for 

 general fishing. 



It is generally a pleasure to an Amer- 

 ican writer to do all American products 

 full justice, and not to advocate the 

 purchase abroad of things that are 

 made in this country of equal quality. 

 I have unhesitatingly advised my 

 readers to buy English lines, but I 

 am in much doubt as to what to say 

 about the purchase of flies. Of course, 

 England is the home — ^the birthplace, 

 so to speak — of the floating fly, and 

 its use in this country has been so lim- 

 ited that American fly-tiers have not 

 had sufficient encouragement to make 

 efforts to put upon the market a prod- 

 uct that can compete in quality with 

 the English floating insect, or to at- 

 tempt to tie flies in imitation of in- 

 sects found upon American streams. 

 So personally, I think that our most 



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