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Time to go salmon fishing again. More plates from George M. Kelson’s work “The Salmon Fly: How to Dress it and How to Use It” which was published in London in 1895.
“Rocke’s Fancy, the Butcher, the Silver Grey, Stevenson, the Popham, and the John Campbell.” Plate 5, page 262. Collection of the University of California Libraries. MSN, digitalizing partner. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/salmonflyhowtodr00kelsrich/page/n252/mode/1up“The Wasp Grup, the Louise, the Hop Dog, the Ghost, the Blue Boyne, the Bo-Peep, the Lorne, and the Inver Green.” Plate 7, page 336. Collection of the University of California Libraries. MSN, digitalizing partner. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/salmonflyhowtodr00kelsrich/page/336/mode/1up“The Gordon, Childers, Traherne’s Wonder, the Cockatoo, the Silver Ardea, and the Nankeen.” Plate 6, page 302. Collection of the University of California Libraries. MSN, digitalizing partner. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/salmonflyhowtodr00kelsrich/page/n302/mode/1up
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