Old Flies in New Dresses: How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies
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Old Flies in New Dresses - Charles Edward Walker
Charles Edward Walker
Old Flies in New Dresses
How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066171933
Table of Contents
PREFACE
OLD FLIES IN NEW DRESSES
PART I
CHAPTER I Introductory
CHAPTER II Colour Perception in Fish
CHAPTER III How to Dress Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position
CHAPTER IV The Alder-fly (Sialis lutaria , Linn.) .
CHAPTER V Caddis-flies (Trichoptera) .
CHAPTER VI Perlidæ
CHAPTER VII Diptera
CHAPTER VIII Winged Ants
CHAPTER IX Caterpillars
PART II
CHAPTER I A Theory
CHAPTER II Corixæ
CHAPTER III Fresh-water Shrimp (Gammarus pulex)
SOME HINTS ON DRY FLY-FISHING
PREFACE
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In the first part of this little work I do not wish my reader to suppose that I claim to be the first who has dealt with any particular imitation in the manner he will find that I have dealt with it. In the case of particular flies, others have frequently observed that the imitations generally used were inaccurate. The imitation of the Alder-fly has perhaps been most treated in this way, but it is not alone. One instance, however, of inaccuracies in imitations of natural flies having been observed, will I hope not be trespassing too much upon my reader’s patience.
Blaine, in his Encyclopædia of Rural Sports published in 1840, says when speaking of the Cow-dung fly:—By some extraordinary mistake Bowlker describes this fly as having upright wings; and as many of the London fly-makers dress their flies by his directions, we need not wonder that they are often bought with their wings unnaturally glaring outwards.
What I have tried to do, is to work out and bring down to a definite rule the position in which the wings of the imitations of the various kinds of flies should be placed.
My reader therefore must not hope in this first part to meet with many imitations of creatures that have not been imitated before; but if he finds that the manner in which the flies are dealt with as a whole is any step forward, be it ever so small, I shall be satisfied in having attained the object at which I aim.
My reader may be surprised at the order in which I have arranged the various flies; but it was necessary, or at any rate very much more convenient, to arrange them in the way I have, as entomological accuracy of arrangement in a work on fishing must not be the first consideration of the author. That the wings of the Alder and the Caddis flies are in practically the same position in relation to their bodies, was my reason for placing the descriptions of these flies next each other, and this instance is sufficient to suggest to those of my readers who are entomologists, reasons for the other cases in which I have not placed the descriptions of the various flies in their correct sequence.
A disclaimer must also be my preface to the second part of my work, for I know that I am far from being the first in thinking that the wet fly of the fisherman is not taken by the fish for the natural fly it is supposed to represent.
Here my hope is that my reader will find a definite theory which is sufficiently plausible to interest him, at least for the moment.
I have to acknowledge the kind assistance of Dr. G. A. Buckmaster, Lecturer on Physiology at St. George’s Hospital, of Mr. Ernest E. Austen, of the British Museum (Natural History), and of several other gentlemen.
I must also thank the Editor of Land and Water for allowing me to republish an article in the first part of my book, and the Editor of The Field for a similar permission with regard to certain articles which appear in the second part.
Mrs. J. R. Richardson, of Kingston-on-Thames, has also given me some hints as to improvements in the dressing of some of the flies described.
Charles Walker.
OLD FLIES IN NEW DRESSES
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PART I
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DRY FLIES
CHAPTER I
Introductory
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Though it would not be true to say that hitherto writers on fly-dressing have shown any lack of power of observation, still it is unfortunately true that their energy seems, strangely enough, to have stopped short at observing the natural fly, and has not been sufficient to carry them on to making even passable imitations, except of Ephemeridæ. With the exception of this family of flies, no one could possibly recognise the artificial through knowing the natural fly which it is supposed to represent. Yet the fisherman who knows the natural fly well by sight will go on using these imitations year after year unquestioningly; and though he himself would certainly not have known, unless he had been told, what natural fly the imitation he is using is meant to represent, he expects the trout to do so at once.
There has been much discussion recently as to whether trout have the power of discriminating between different colours, but no one has ever cast a doubt on their power of discriminating between different shapes; yet in most of these imitations it is not the colour that is wrong, but the shape. The wings of a fly undoubtedly play a most important part in forming the outline, and consequently the general appearance of the fly. Therefore, if they are not put in the natural position, the whole contour of the imitation must be entirely different from that of the natural fly.
It seems,