110 best's art of angling. 



hackle are to be shortened aiJ over, sometimes 

 -barbed only a little, and sometimes close under- 

 neath) leaving the whole length of fibres on 

 the top, or back of the fly, which makes it swim 

 ■better, and on a whirling round water, kills great 

 £sh. Your hook for this pa/mery No. 5. 



GOLDEN PALMERy OR HACKLE. 



The same dubbin j:^, ribbed with gold twist and 

 a red hackle over alL 



SILVER HACKLE. 



Made with black body also, silver twist over 

 that, and a red hackle over all. 



The variation that is to be observed in making 

 the gold and silver palmers is this, that when you 

 whip the end of the hackle to the bend of the 

 hook, you must also do the same to the o;old or 

 silver twist, and first wind either of them on the 

 dubbing, observing that they li-e flat on it, and 

 then fasten ofl"; afterwards proceed with the 

 hackle as directed : or you may wind the hackle 

 on the dubbing first, and rib the body with either 

 of the twists afterwards. 



These are the standard hackles in Jlj/-fishingt 

 and are taken au}^ month i?) the year, from nine to 

 eleven in the morning, and from one to three in 

 the evening, and upon any water ; though you 

 must have different sizes of them, and dubbed 

 with different colours, that you may always be 

 able to suit either a clear or dark water, or a bright 

 and cloudy atmosphere; observing, that small 

 li(rht-coloiired flies are for clear waters and skies, 

 and the largest for dark and cloudy ones. 



These palmer s (as I said before) being takea 



