112 FLY-MAKING. 



The twist and herls are to be fastened in the same 

 way. Two or three herls are the number generally 

 used, but to prevent confusion only one is drawn 

 in most of our diagrams. Taking one end of the 

 gold twist with the fore-finger and thumb of your 

 right hand, and applying its extreme point to the 

 bend of the hook, secure it there with two or 

 three turns of the tying-silk in the same way 

 that the herl is shown to be fastened in fig. 7., 

 at a. Then take the herls, and in the same 



manner fasten them in by the smaller end, as 

 already shown (Jig. 6 and 7). Take two turns with 

 the tying-silk, and then fasten the hackle by the 

 point /(fig* 8.), with that side of the feather upper- 

 most which grew nearest the body of the fowl. 

 The fly in this state will present the appear- 

 ance of fig. 8., in which e and a indicate each 

 end of the herl, c and b each end of the twist, 

 g a portion of the tying-silk, and f that part of 

 the hackle by which it is fastened to the hook. 



