Excerpt from Old Flies in New Dresses: How to Dress Dry Flies With the Wings in the Natural Position, and Some New Wet Flies
In the first part of this little work I do not wish my reader to suppose that I claim to be 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 Encyclop?dia 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.
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