xviii CONTENTS. 



tying on drop-flies, illustrated. — A gang of hooks, illustrated. — 

 Receipts. — For making wax. — For dyeing gut. — For dyeing feathers 

 and dubbing 405 



CHAPTER XV I. 



FLY-MAKING. 



Implements. — Hand-Vice, Spring-Pliers, &c. — Book for holding mate- 

 rials. — Materials. — Hooks.— Gut. — Tinsel. — Dubbing. — Hackles. — 

 Wings. — To tie a plain Hackle. — To tie a Palmer. — To make a fly 

 with wings . 419 



CHAPTER XVI I. 



ROD-MAKING. 



Woods used in making rods. — Wood and Malacca cane for fly-rods. — 

 Materials used by amateur rod-makers. — To make a fly-rod of three 

 pieces. — To make a tip. — To stain a rod. — Oiling and varnishing. — 

 Wrapping splices and putting on rings. — To make a " rent and 

 glued," or quarter-sectioned tip. — Draw-plate and V tool illustrated 

 and explained. — Manner of splitting cane and joining the pieces of 

 a quarter-sectioned tip described by diagram. — Making middle 

 pieces and tips without splices. — Manner of making a fly-rod to be 

 adjusted to light or heavy fishing. — Ferule-making . . . 441 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

 FISH-BREEDING. 



Causes of the decrease of Salmon and Trout. — Remarks on fish-ponds 

 and the manner of stocking them. — Artificial Fish-Breeding — with 

 illustrations, showing the manner of expressing the ova and milt, 

 the arrangement of hatching-troughs, and the growth of the fish ; 

 from " A Complete Treatise on Artificial Fish-Breed in g," by W. H. 

 Fry, Esq., with some remarks of the author of this work. — The 

 Aquarium — its appropriate size and form, and manner of stocking 

 it with fish and introducing suitable aquatic plants . . , 459 



