REVERSING THE WINGS. 75 



fact, such wings, for such flies, are placed on 

 in a way quite the reverse from that shown in 

 Fig. 2. 



This next cut represents an ordinary winged 

 fly, one of the easiest 

 of the sort you can 

 make, in nearly a fi- 

 nished state. You have 

 only to cut off the silk 

 which is left hanging 

 at the spot at which 

 you have finished the fly. You wonder, perhaps, 

 at the position of the wings, pointing very differ- 

 ently from the way you left them when you first 

 tied them on as directed in the explanation ac- 

 companying Fig. 2. I will explain to you the 

 different operations that have caused this change 

 of position. When you wind up your dubbing to 

 the setting-on of the wings, you fasten your dub- 

 bing there, and pinch off all of it that is super- 

 fluous. You fasten your silk with a slip-knot. 

 You then take the wing-fibres between the fore- 

 finger and thumb of your left hand, and reverse 

 them, bending them down over the back of the 

 body of your fly, with the tops of the fibres point- 

 ing towards the bend of your hook. Whilst so 

 bent and held down, you pass your silk behind 

 the wings, between them and the end of the shank 

 of the hook, and you lap your silk two or three 



