78 DRESSINGS A TINSEL-RIBBED FLY. 



of the hackle behind your wings, which divide, 

 and pass your silk through the division, and 

 round the bottom of each wing, finishing at the 

 head in the way directed for fly, Fig. 5. A fly 

 made carefully in this way is a most general and 

 killing one, wanting only, for higher finish, to be 

 ribbed or tipped with tinsel. 



I here present you with a fly ribbed with tinsel 

 over the body. It is a 

 difficult fly to make ; and 

 when you can make it 

 well, you may consider 

 yourself a proficient in 

 the art of fly-dressing. Arm your gut, then tie 

 on your hackle for legs, and your wings as usual. 

 Cut away thick end of hackle and wings, and wind 

 your silk down to the tail. Attach your tail, and 

 then your gold or silver twist, as may be. Spin 

 on your dubbing, which wind up carefully to the 

 wings, fasten with a slip-knot, and leave your silk 

 depending. Go back to the tail, and take your 

 gold or silver twist and lap it at regular intervals 

 over the body up to the wings ; fasten and cut 

 away the remaining parts of the twist and dub- 

 bing; then wind your hackle a couple of turns 

 over twist and dubbing in the direction of the 

 tail, and, x fastening down the hackle cut away the 

 point piit. Bring your silk back behind the 

 wings ; divide them, and finish in the way already 



