92 HOW TO TIE FLIES. 



stage illustrated in Fig. 27, tie in a length of fine 

 flat tinsel. Wind the tying silk some four or five 

 turns towards the right, and fasten in clip. 

 Wind tinsel over these four or five turns, and 

 fasten by one turn of the tying silk. Before 

 cutting away unwound tinsel, tie in body material 

 with two more turns of tying silk towards the 

 right, which should be made over the end of the 

 tinsel, so as to further secure it. Cut away tinsel 

 and end of body material, and proceed as before. 



It is obvious that when a fly has whisks, a tag 

 may be formed either before or behind the whisks. 

 It is clear, also, that by a device similar to that 

 just described, may be made a winged palmer, 

 hackled only halfway down the body. The 

 hinder half of the body may be. made as a tag of 

 one strip of material, and after this is wound and 

 secured by one turn, the hackle, ribbing tinsel, 

 and another strip of body material may be tied 

 in, and the fly completed as before. Parti- 

 coloured bodies of any number of joints may be 

 made on the same lines. The following applica- 

 tion of the same method may also be noticed. 



When a particularly large Palmer, or woolly 

 bear, is to be made, it may sometimes happen 

 that a hackle sufficiently long to cover the whole 

 length of the body cannot be obtained. In this 

 case, the simplest plan is to make the body in two 

 sections, finishing off one before tying in hackle 

 and body material with which to form the other. 

 If the work be done neatly, the join will not be 

 easily visible. 



How TO MAKE A DUBBED BODY. 



Commence as usual, and having tied in the 

 ribbing tinsel (if any), hold the tying silk taut 

 with the left hand, and taking a little dubbing of 

 the proper shade between the finger and tlmmb 

 of the right, spin it smoothly on the well waxed 



