HOW TO TIE FLIES. 



artificial imitation must therefore be relegated to 

 the list of fancy patterns. 



Eonalds and Foster seem to be of quite a 

 different opinion, but we need not enter on the 

 controversy here. The important fact for us is, 

 that both the large woolly bears and the small 

 palmers are often very killing lures. 



The following is a good method of dressing a 

 palmer : Lay on the silk and tie in gut as usual. 

 Select a hackle, long in the quill and relatively 



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short in the fibre. Stroke back all its fibres 

 except those at the point. Tie it in by the point, 

 before tying in body material. 



Tie in ribbing tinsel, if any, and body material. 

 Wind tying silk to shoulder. Wind and fasten 

 body material and ribbing tinsel. 



Wind hackle, keeping it well on edge, in open 

 spiral coils, close behind, and touching ribbing 

 tinsel. Fasten down hackle with two turns of 

 tying silk. Cut away stem of hackle. 



If desired, another hackle may now be tied in, 



