FISHING TACKLE AND HOW TO MAKE IT. 



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I take it for granted that all of my readers are familiar 

 with the appearance of an artificial fly, as made after the con- 

 ventional pattern. However, to bring the ensemble more 

 vividly before their notice, fig. 16 is interpolated. That it is 

 not at all like a fly, in detail, is nothing to my present pur- 

 pose. It is what Dudley Warner terms a "conventionalized 

 creation," not an imitation; and it undoubtedly does catch fish! 



There is probably no more fascinating work than the making 

 of these dainty fur-and-feather lures; and I shall not waste 

 time in further preface, but, assuming that the reader desires 

 to learn how to "dress" a fly, I beg him to at once begin with 

 me the construction of his first "brown hackle" which I 

 choose as being the simplest form of so-called artificial fly. 



To Make the "Pennell" Brown Hackle. Take a hackle 

 (proportioned to the size of the hook) and having bound the 

 hook on with waxed silk, lay it on the end of the shank, as 



Fig. 17. 

 shown at fig. 17, with the under concave side upward. Tie it 

 securely. Then take the tip between the forefinger and 

 thumb of the right hand, and take several turns around the 

 hook-shank (see fig 18); tie as shown. Let the turns be 

 sufficient in number to allow of as much remaining hackle as 

 is shown in fig 18. This hackle is then bound tightly side 

 by side of the shank, and a double hitch secures it at a point 

 about opposite the barb. The projecting remainder of the 

 hackle forms a tail. 



