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AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



This is the simplest fly made, and it can be manufactured 

 from almost any small feather in fifty seconds — a boon to 

 the angler in the woods who prefers the fly to the bait. 



To Make the Ordinary Brown Hackle. — Here I must 



Fig. 18. , 

 diverge a little, and explain a very important labor-saving 

 method of preparing the hackle for all kinds of flies (and 

 necessarily of course for the "brown hackle"). 



It is easy to see, if one takes the hackle fresh from the 

 rooster's neck, that it is almost impossible to roll it evenly 

 round the shank of a hook, unless it is done as recommended 



Fig. 19- 



for the "Pennell " hackle, and this method is far from neat, 

 or satisfactory in any way, when applied to the iiner-winged 



