HOW TO MAKE ARTIFICIAL 

 FLIES 



"Mark well the various seasons of the year, 

 How the succeeding insect race appear, 

 In their revolving moon one color reigns, 

 Which in the next the fickle trout disdains ; 

 Oft have I seen a skillful angler try 

 The various colors of the treach'rous fly; 

 When he with fruitless pain hath skim'd the brook, 

 And the coy fish rejects the skipping hook. 

 He shakes the boughs that on the margin grow, 

 Which o'er the stream a weaving forest throw ; 

 When if an insect fall (his certain guide), 

 He gently takes him from the whirling tide; 

 Examines well his form with curious eyes, 

 His gaudy vest, his wings, his horns, his size. 

 Then round his hook the chosen fur he winds, 

 And on the back a speckled feather binds; 

 So just the colors shine through every part, 

 That insect seems to live again in art." 



HTHE best way in which to catch 

 trout, and even bass, is with a 

 fly; although the fish takes the fly 

 because he thinks it is a real live one, 

 he is not particular about having it 

 look exactly like a live one. 



A fly is made this way: hold the 

 hook by the bend and wind the tying 

 thread which has been thoroughly 

 waxed, and should be of silk, several 

 times around the straight shank; by 

 winding it on the shank it is brought 



