The Trout Fly Dresser's Cabinet of Devices: Or How to Tie Flies for Trout and Grayling Fishing (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Excerpt from The Trout Fly Dresser's Cabinet of Devices: Or How to Tie Flies for Trout and Grayling Fishing

IT is, perhaps, unnecessary that I should here dwell on the advantages which a knowledge of fly dressing gives to the angler, since it is to be expected that they are already known and felt by those who read these lines. At the same time such a course seems natural, and - with the reader's pardon - its adoption gets me out of the difficulty of knowing how to open up my subject.

Every angler for trout will admit that the qualities which go to make one successful in his craft are judgment, skill, and knowledge of the trout's habits and powers, and of the insects on which he feeds; and are not these the very qualities which go to make a successful fly dresser, and which are developed in the practice of the art? It is true that fly fishing and fly dressing each require a fair amount of manipula tive skill proper to themselves; but they are at least so closely connected that a man, with some practical knowledge of the one, will have many advantages on his side when entering on the other - not only utilitarian advantages, either.

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