AGENTS

AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK

AUSTRALASIA OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 205 Flinders Lane, MELBOURNE

CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. St. Martin’s House, 70 Bond Street, TORONTO

INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. Macmillan Building, BOMBAY 309 Bow Bazaar Street, CALCUTTA

Rough Spring Olive. No. 1. Iron Blue Dun. No. 00.

Greenwell’s Glory. No. 0. Greenwell’s Glory. No. 00 Double. Watery Dun. No. 00 Double.

Pale Summer Greenwell’s Glory. No. 1. Pale Summer Greenwell’s Glory. No. 00 Double. Black Gnat. No. 00.

Tup’s Indispensable. Wet. No. 0. Tup’s Indispensable. Wet. No. 00 Double. Olive Nymph. No. 0.

Dotterel Hackle. Tied Stewartwise. No. 00. Tup’s Indispensable. Floater. No. 0.

MINOR TACTICS OF THE CHALK STREAM AND KINDRED STUDIES

BY

G. E. M. SKUES

(SEAFORTH AND SOFORTH)

SECOND EDITION

LONDON

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK

1914

First published in March, 1910

Dedicated

TO MY FRIEND THE DRY-FLY

PURIST, AND TO MY

ENEMIES, IF I HAVE ANY

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