. Dry-fly fishing in theory and practice . en he first puts them on, a metal boxin which the flies can be stood up, stickinginto felt fastened to the bottom, is more con-venient. A convenient form of box for thepocket, with space for a pair of pliers, is illus-trated in fig. 17, The opinion has been freely expressed thatforcing the points of hooks into and out offelt or flannel is liable to blunt them, andsometimes even to break off the barbs. Ihave often thought that the eye of the hookseemed to lend itself to the purpose of fixingthe flies in place in the box. Fi^ijox^^^ Lately Messrs. C. Fa
. Dry-fly fishing in theory and practice . en he first puts them on, a metal boxin which the flies can be stood up, stickinginto felt fastened to the bottom, is more con-venient. A convenient form of box for thepocket, with space for a pair of pliers, is illus-trated in fig. 17, The opinion has been freely expressed thatforcing the points of hooks into and out offelt or flannel is liable to blunt them, andsometimes even to break off the barbs. Ihave often thought that the eye of the hookseemed to lend itself to the purpose of fixingthe flies in place in the box. Fi^ijox^^^ Lately Messrs. C. Farlow and Co (Limited) have submitted to me the patent J. Fly-box, which is shown in fig 18. THE DRY-FLY FISHERMANS GEAR 51 One measuring 5 J-inches in length, 3 J- in width,and f in depth, contains eight rows of thirteenflies each. There is a metal pin for each flyprojecting upwards, which is sprung back bya covered spiral spring at the base, and around hole in the side of each block receivesthe eye of the hook. To fix a fly in the. Fig. 18. box, press the eye down on to the pin untilit is opposite to the round hole, when thespring will force it back into the round hole,and secure the fly in an upright position. To take a fly out, draw it away from theblock, slipping it off the spring, and the pin willspring back into its place. The flies can beinserted or withdrawn from the box either bythe fingers, or what is perhaps handier, by theuse of a pair of forceps. The Club eyed fly-boxes recently brought 52 DR Y-FL y FISHING ClubEyed out bv Mcssrs. Hardv Brothers, of Alnwick, Fly-box. -^ . . ^ have given satisfaction to the majority ofdry-fly fishermen who have used them, A set of these boxes is composed of three :—one a large double reservoir box <^\ incheslong, ^\ inches wide by 2 inches deep, to holdabout seventy dozen flies ; one Mayfly box 5finches long, 3^ inches wide by i^ inches deep ;and one small pocket fly box 5f inches long, 3^inches wide by i inch deep, as s
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