. Dry-fly fishing in theory and practice . 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 The flies can beinserted or withdrawn from the box either bythe fingers, or what is perhaps handier, by theuse of a pair of forceps.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.
. Dry-fly fishing in theory and practice . 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 The flies can beinserted or withdrawn from the box either bythe fingers, or what is perhaps handier, by theuse of a pair of forceps.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 shown in fig. Fig. 19. The essential feature of these boxes is thearrangement of the flies on wood bars coveredwith waterproofed paper. The paper is turnedover the top of the bar, so as to form, as itwere, a paper arch above the bar. The hookof each fly is pulled beyond the barb throughthe walls of the arch, and when a fly is requiredfor use it is simply torn from the paper. When THE DRY-FLY FISHERMANS GEAR 53 the paper covering is worn out, the bar isdiscarded and replaced by a spare bar, the costof which is quite small. The bars are all ofuniform length, depth, and thickness, and arethus interchanofeable amono- the set of boxes.
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