FLOSS SILK BODIES. 



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should be tied in as you wind the tying silk up 

 from the butt ; but care must be taken, in winding 



Fig- 33- 



the floss afterwards, that no fibres are caught in. 

 The ribbing, as before, must pass immediately in 

 front of the hackle. 



In some flies there is no butt at all; but floss 

 silk, which forms part of the body, is wound close 



Fig. 34. 



up to the tail and floss of the tag. You must be 

 careful to avoid a lump or ridge where the tail is 

 tied in ; so, after tying in the tail and the ribbing 



