112 SALMON FLIES 



Hitch the silk be- 

 tween gut loop and 

 hook as before (see Fig. 

 34), grip the hackle by 

 the end of the stem 

 with the ordinary hackle pliers, and wind the 

 hackle round, keeping the stem immediately 



FIG. 34. 



FIG. 35. 



behind and close up to each coil of the ribbing 

 tinsel, and the doubled fibres pointing back- 



