HACKLE-FEATHEK PUT ON. 



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standing, in order to show how they are to be 



remedied. 



Here is a 'complete fly, with wings, body, 



tail, and hackle for 

 legs wound under the 

 wings, and just before 

 them. 



You see here the 

 hackle-feather whip- 

 ped on for the pur- 

 pose of making the 

 legs of a winged fly, 

 or for making a plain 

 hackle or a palmer- 

 hackle. I will suppose 

 you going to make the fly, Fig. 6. You arm your 

 gut, as described at Fig. 1 ; you fasten on your 

 wings, as shown at Fig. 2 ; and you then whip on 

 your hackle, as here represented, close by the 

 wings. You cut away butt-ends of the hackle 

 and wing-fibres, and you whip your silk down 

 towards the bend. Whip on your fibres or hairs 

 for tail, and then spin on your dubbing, which 

 you wind up to the thick ends of hackle and wing. 

 Carry back towards the tail your silk a little, and 

 then wind on over the body for two turns, in the 

 same direction as your silk, your hackle-feather, 

 which you tie down, and cutting off what remains 

 of it unbound, bring your silk through the fibres 



