How to Dress Salmon Flies

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. IT will be admitted generally that for the purpose of learning the art of dressing flies one hour's practical demonstration by an ex pert will be of more service than whole volumes of written directions. Nevertheless, the latter are, I think, of some use, and will at least serve the purpose of permanently recording certain points of manipulation to which attention may have been drawn in a practical demonstration and which are apt to escape the memory. Verbal precept, backed up though it may be by ocular demonstration, will, by itself.