Excerpt from How to Tie Salmon Flies: A Treatise on the Methods of Tying the Various Kinds of Salmon Flies, With Illustrated Directions and Containing the Dressing of Forty Flies One. That one, Salmon Fly - tying, has not received the attention it deserves, although many improve ments in methods of tying, and in materials used, have been made. I have endeavoured to describe these. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.