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THE ANGLER'S FLIES. 
There were sixty-odd specimens in mv book. 
With a self-sacrificing ordinance which it is to 
be hoped may be favorably remembered some 
other day, I reduced the list to twenty, and then 
deliberately threw the surplus on the fire, says 
Ernest Phillips in the Shooting Times. The 
picking-out process was not accomplished in an 
hour, nor was it without much travail and 
mental agony. A plague on the men who in¬ 
vented all these specimens! Why should Jones 
be immortalized by a “fancy” which is no better 
than Brown’s? and who gave White the right to 
throw his “kill-’em-quick” at our heads and 
persuade us into the belief that the very sight 
of it will compel the trout to leap into our 
baskets? The truth is that the making of flies 
has gone beyond all reasonable bounds. Two 
or three years ago one of the most scientific 
books on fly-fishing ever written gave the 
names and details of no fewer than 156 different 
flies for use during a season which lasts only 
seven months. A very little sum in arithmetic 
will show that the angler who takes the advice 
of this author will burden himself with over 
twenty flies for each month. Contrast this with 
the example of Mr. Stewart, author of “The 
Practical Angler,” a book which is still un¬ 
beaten in its line. Mr. Stewart gives only six 
flies for the whole season. Between the 
museum of 156 speciments and the pill-box of 
half a dozen, there is somewhere a happy 
medium, and in the north we are trying to find 
it. We are coming to the conclusion that too 
much has been made of the supposed ability of 
the trout to detect one fly from another. 
Quite recently I bought a blue-dun from one 
maker and a blue-upright from another, and 
half a dozen angling friends were ready to swear 
that the flies were exactly alike. I have seen 
palmers, bracken-clocks and coch-y-bondhus so 
much alike that when mixed up it was hard to 
tell one from another. Then there is another 
significant point. No two dealers make their 
flies exactly alike. I suppose that Greenwell’s 
glory and Wickham’s fancy are among the best 
known flies in the trade. Recently I sent for 
samples from half a dozen different houses, and 
in the case of each fly the differences in the half- 
dozen specimens were amazing—differences in 
the color and material, the shape and “lie” of 
the wings, and so on. If this means anything 
it surely means that none of the patterns were 
meant to be identical. Therein we see the fine 
Roman hand of the tackle .dealer. Make the 
flies as far apart as possible, and thus keep the 
trade booming! They are not to be blamed for 
looking after their interests, nor is the angler 
to be blamed if he sees and smiles at their di¬ 
versified efforts to draw out his cash. The 
angler who is always buying fresh flies may be 
a good friend to the tackle dealer, but he is not 
necessarily a skillful fisherman. 
What we have yet to discover is how far the 
trout understand the scheme of color, and 
whether we are not throwing away upon them 
our gradations of blues, reds and yellows. The 
finicky difference between one fly and another, 
only apparent after diligent search to the eye of 
the trained angler, often ceases to be a differ¬ 
ence at all when the flies are soddened and 
water-logged and the dressing is flattened 
against the shank. For my own part, I refuse 
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