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H. V. Hart-Davis. Chats on Angling
Chats on Angling
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I. IN PRAISE OF THE DRY FLY
CHAPTER II. DRY FLY TACKLE AND EQUIPMENT
CHAPTER III. SOME DRY FLY MAXIMS
CHAPTER IV. EDUCATION OF THE SOUTH-COUNTRY TROUT
CHAPTER V. THE MAY FLY
CHAPTER VI. THE EVENING RISE
CHAPTER VII "JACK."
CHAPTER VIII. WEED CUTTING
CHAPTER IX. THE ANGLER AND AMBIDEXTERITY
CHAPTER X. LOCH FISHING
CHAPTER XI. DAPPING FOR TROUT
CHAPTER XII. GRAYLING FISHING
CHAPTER XIII. NOTES ON RAINBOW TROUT
CHAPTER XIV. SALMON FISHING
CHAPTER XV. A TRIP TO IRELAND
CHAPTER XVI. SALMON AND FLIES
CHAPTER XVII. SALMON OF THE AWE
CHAPTER XVIII. DISAPPOINTING DAYS
CHAPTER XIX. SEA TROUT FISHING AND ITS CHANCES
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H. V. Hart-Davis
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Having fully equipped ourselves so far, we have now to consider our flies. I take it that no one who fishes with the floating fly nowadays clings to the use of flies mounted upon gut. Eyed flies have no doubt replaced them for all time. The very drying of your fly is too severe upon the heads of gut-mounted flies. Eyed hooks have, however, had to fight their way to the front, so prejudiced are we all, and I can picture to myself now a prominent legislator, a great angler and the author of one of the best sporting books published of late, standing by me on Test side, on a meadow near Longparish, his cap literally covered with artificial flies attached to strands of gut—a most extraordinary sight. The fish were most unkind, taking greedily some kind of small black insect, or fisherman's curse. We had offered them every kind of midge fly or black gnat we could think of, with scant success. Our friend, in gazing for the twentieth time at his fly-bedecked cap, saw a group of black ants, on gut, amongst others. The first one put on not only procured a rise, but hooked the fish; one run, and he was gone, the fly remaining in his mouth. So with the next. In vain we soaked the gut; each fly met with the same result—it was at once taken and the fish was at once lost. The gut was absolutely rotten, and that pattern of ant was apparently the only medicine. Our friend fairly danced upon the bank in rage and disappointment. And it was all he could do to restrain himself from dancing on his rod and from using very unparliamentary language. I believe that even he is a convert to eyed flies now.
Whether the flies should have turned up or turned down eyes is a matter of controversy. Personally, I prefer the latter. In any case, the eye should not be too small, or much mental anguish will result. It is needless to say that they should be well tempered and with sound barbs. They should be tested in a piece of soft wood.
