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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 27

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asof the new dry-fly school in periodical andliermanent angling literature, that all the worldis at the present time a dry-fly fisher; yetthe dry-fly school, though it= members includethe most eminent of anglers, is a comparativelylimited one in numbers, and its history may bebriefly told. A few… … Salmon Fly. to which the end of the collar might be knotted,as a preferable plan to the attachment of gutlengths as an essential part of the dressing of theflv. Eyed hooks had undoubtedly been knownbefore in one shape or another, but the universal])ractice was to tie the fly to a length of gut.The…

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