92 BY HOOK AND BY CROOK. 



to the shoulder of the fly, to a point below the space to 

 be later on occupied by the shoulder-hackle, and fix it 

 with a turn of the waxed silk, which is now released. 



To get the silk evenly on, it can be flattened out over 

 a needle as it is wound up the hook. 



Now take the tinsel and incline it over towards the 

 head of hook, flattening the bend with the thumb-nail, 

 and wind on over the silk body in good bold coils an 

 equal distance apart, securing the end with a turn of 

 waxed silk, then do likewise with the hackle, laying it 

 close behind the tinsel for efl'ect and protection. 



There is a knack in laying on a hackle which is not 

 to be acquired in a moment, but if it be rolled in the 

 fingers during its progress up the hook, in the same 

 manner as the harl of the butt, it will be found to 

 acquire the correct set. 



The next item is the shoulder-hackle, which having 

 been prepared in the same manner as that for the body, 

 should be wound on itself, as it were, at a point on the 

 hook so as to cover the whipping of body-silk, tinsel, 

 and hackle, and then secured with a turn or two and 

 half-hitch of the waxed silk, the only portion of the 

 hook now bare being that left for the wings. At this 

 point we generally give the work a touch of varnish. 



All that now remains is to attach the wings, so having 

 selected the required feathers, and made up the two 

 wings separately (in the case of a mixed wing-fly), they 

 should be put together, placed in position on the hook, 

 and then secured with two or three turns of silk. 



