This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...river in the British Isles developed its own type, but these types have been intermingled and modified, to the infinite advantage of tackle-makers and the confusion of honest anglers. Recently a gallant attempt has been made by Mr. Baden-Powell in the opposite direction, and we are presented with half ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...river in the British Isles developed its own type, but these types have been intermingled and modified, to the infinite advantage of tackle-makers and the confusion of honest anglers. Recently a gallant attempt has been made by Mr. Baden-Powell in the opposite direction, and we are presented with half-a-dozen patterns, in which the advantages of all known flies are combined, a series of pocket epitomes of the whole art of flytying. When this process is fully developed, we shall no longer be troubled to change our Jock Scot for a Silver Doctor; the salient features of each will be offered to the fish, combined chemically in a tabloid form. The conditions of Norwegian salmon fishing have prevented the growth of a variety of local patterns such as Scotland and Ireland are plagued with. The English angler has brought with him, as a rule, examples of certain wellknown and standard patterns, and his Norwegian attendant has accepted them with stolid indifference as a natural part of the Englishman's wonderful outfit. If I showed a fly to Lars, and asked his opinion of it, he would wait until he had carefully felt the point of the hook with his thumb, and if he found it sharp, would pronounce the fly good enough. And here, I believe, he hit on a great truth, often forgotten by our local practitioners, that the quality of the iron is of greater importance than the fur and feathers with which it is decked. Better a rough fur body and a simple turkey wing on a good wire with a firmly-tied loop, than the finest creation of silks and toppings on a badlytempered hook and a loop that draws. And so it happens, that in Norway most anglers use but few patterns, and those chiefly the well-tried "standards." The Jock Scot and its derivatives; the...
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