308 FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



of the wood-duck, nor the brown mallard feather are equal in 

 attraction and delicacy to the top-knot of the golden pheas- 

 ant, or the feathers of the argo pheasant. The two lower 

 rows of flies are copies of those used with success last year 

 in Canada by Dr. Clerk, of Andrew Clerk & Co. 



FLY DRESSING. 

 TROUT-FLIES. 



Fig. 1. Preparatory to snelling your hook, which means tying 

 the hook to a silk-worm gut snell, wind the head of the 

 shank with several turns of waxed silk. Wax for fly-tying 

 is the same as shoemaker's, only more clear and lighter col- 

 ored. Then wind three or four times from near the bend 

 of the hook up to the first thread at the head, and lay the 

 end of the gut on the inside of the shank down near to the 

 bend, and wind with the last silk thread down to the end, 

 and fasten end as directed on the page of" loops and ties," 

 leaving ends as 1. Fig. 3 is the same as 1, only the end of 

 silk at the bend end of the tie is cut short, whereas the 

 two threads of 1 are seen on 2 as follows : 



Fig. 2. Place two hairs as antenna?, and the hackle that you 

 intend for the head in the direction of the bend of hook, 

 and fasten them by several loops ; then fasten the end of 

 the duffing like 2 or 9, and wind it round the hook to form 

 the body, winding it afterward with a thread of gold or 

 silver twist, or a hackle feather like 4, fastened as at 10, 

 and wind round the body. Then add the wings like 5, 

 finishing off like 8 ; or cut from a feather a pair of wings 

 like 6, and wind them from the head so they will maintain 

 their present spread shape. Many tyers of trout-flies tie 

 only one wing on, but it never falls so naturally as do the 

 two-winged flies ; and, to imitate Nature perfectly, some 

 flies require to be tied with four wings. Imitate the natu- 

 ral fly as shown on the plate of " natural and artificial 

 flies." 



