fly-box

Updated: November 6, 2024

A number four Critchley's Fancy produced no better result. A tiny double Silver Grey brought no response. Then he looked through his fly-box in despair, and picked out an old three-nought Prince of Orange a huge, gaudy affair with battered feathers, which he had used two years before in flood-water on the Restigouche.

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