FLY MAKING. 35 



To make a Buzz-fly with a hackle (see fig. 30, 

 plate 14), the upper or pomted end of the hackle 

 must be tied at the tail E, fig. 3, plate 3, with 

 the ends of the material of the body (by means 

 of the thread c, d), and the hackle must be 

 wound up over the dubbing, and fastened off 

 with the thread A B, after the gold or silver 

 twist or other ribbing has been wound on and 

 fastened off with A B. 



If a Buzz-fly (as figs. 28 and 29, plate 13) 

 is to be made with any other feather than a 

 hackle, the feather should be stroked back, its 

 pointed end should be tied on at the shoulder B 

 (fig. 4, plate 3) of the fly, three or four coils of 

 the feather should be made round the part above 

 B, and the strands or fibres of the feather should 

 be carefully picked out, as the coiling proceeds, 

 otherwise it will not lie well. The butt end of 

 the feather must be tied in at the head of the fly 

 with the thread A B, which must be fastened off' 

 as usual. 



In making a fly with wings intended to repre- 

 sent natural wings at rest (as fig. 2, plate 4), 

 the hackle feather may, in some cases, be dis- 

 pensed with, and a little of the dubbing may be 

 left out in the warping, or picked out of the body 

 with a needle, after the winding or warping, to 

 serve for legs instead of the hackle feather. In 

 every other respect the fly may be made in the 



