HOW TO DRESS A DRY FLY. 



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the strained length of tying silk, as usual. Fasten 

 off hinder hackle with two turns towards the right. 

 Fasten silk in clip, and cut away waste point of 

 hackle just wound. 



Now wind "fore" hackle one or two turns 

 towards the right, alternately behind and before 

 silk. Then bring hackle, as before, forward and 

 backwards between the wings, and finish as 

 usual. 



The bringing of the hackle of a dry fly forward 



FIG. 62. 



and backwards between the wings is, so far as I 

 know, a method of my own. I find that it 

 effectually checks the tendency of the split wings 

 to close up together, when wet or in any way 

 compressed. 



If it be preferred, the hackle (or " fore " hackle 

 when two are used) of a dry fly may be wound 

 and secured in precisely the same manner as are 

 the hackles of wet flies, and the wings split 

 afterwards. 



