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to credit the trout with this superfine sense of 
discrimination. Give me a few broadly defined 
colors, suited to the natural surroundings of 
spring, summer and autumn, and I am quite 
content to pin my faith to a score of flies for 
the whole season. An expert once gave a list 
of a dozen in the Fishing Gazette, and for a 
rough-and-ready list it cannot be beaten. Here 
it is: Six-winged flies—March-brown, Green- 
well’s-glory, woodcock and hares-ear, iron blue- 
dun, red-quill and Wickham. Hackled—dark- 
snipe and purple, waterhen-bloa, light-woodcock 
and orange, dotterel and yellow, Stewart’s 
black-spider and red-palmer. Interesting 
though this list is, every angler can pick holes 
in it. Personally, I would drop the quill of the 
dun and substitute Broughton-point, one of the 
very best and most deadly winged flies in use 
in the north of England. In the hackle section 
I would drop the dark-snipe and purple, if for 
no other reason than its striking resemblance 
to the waterhen-bloa, and in its place I would 
put dark-snipe and orange, while for the light- 
woodcock and orange I would substitute either 
a bracken-clock or a red-hackle. Add to this 
list a Zulu, especially for reservoir work, and 
no angler need fear the gibes of the “local man” 
or the pitying glances of the fisherman whose 
fly-book is stuffed to bursting with an ento¬ 
mological museum the very names of the con¬ 
tents, of which he has only half mastered. 
This cult of fewer flies is no new thing in the 
north. In Watson’s “Lake District Fisheries” 
he quotes an angler who has fished that fine 
lake, Buttermore, all his life, and whose cast 
month in and month out is always made up of 
the same three flies, occasionally altered in their 
relative positions. The trio are March-brown, 
Zulu and Wickham. It is the question of dis¬ 
crimination which is so very difficult. Mr. Hal¬ 
ford, the dry-fly purist, has brought his list 
down to eleven. The present Duke of Rutland 
can manage with a round dozen. Sir Edward 
Grey’s book shows us that he is satisfied with 
four—olive-quill, iron-blue, red-quill and black- 
spider. As befits the disciple, Sydney Buxton, 
M.P., accepts these four, but pleads to be 
allowed to add just four others—hares-ear, 
Wickham, silver-sedge and alder. Going further 
still with the process of weeding out, if there 
were to be only one fly in the world, the editor 
of the Fishing Gazette would like it to be a 
Wickham. If the choice were left to the editor 
of the Field,. he would surely plump for red- 
spinner. If it is not presumptuous to bring 
myself into this exalted company, my brain is 
so distraught with the rival claims of Wickham, 
Greenwell and Broughton that I have not yet 
been able to make up my mind. 
Of course, there is no reason why we should 
cut down our flies to this rare limit. Angling 
would be intolerable to most of us if we were 
compelled to limit ourselves to three, six, or 
even twelve. A score is the extent to which I 
am prepared to go in my own sacrificial offering 
on the altar of simplicity and economy. If there 
is a charm in the contemplation of the fly-book 
in winter, in bringing back by the sight of our 
favorites the memory of successes they have 
won for us, there is also a charm in taking off 
one fly at the water’s edge and carefully select¬ 
ing another which you may suppose to be more 
in keeping with the requirements of the day. 
On the whole, therefore, my sympathies are with 
a well-filled book. True, I have reduced my 
stock, but every week I shall be tempted to add 
just one more, until by the close of the sea¬ 
son I shall discover with a start of surprise that 
whereas I began as an apostle of retrench¬ 
ment. I shall finish up as an advocate of bloated 
armaments. ’Twas ever thus—precept and prac¬ 
tice are as far apart as oil and water. But who 
wants to be consistent, and rigid, and rule-of- 
thumb-like in a hobby the basic principle of 
which is the adaptability of art to the fickle 
moods of nature? 
All the fish laws of the United States and Can¬ 
ada. revised to date and now in force, are given 
in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
