FLY MAKING. 453 



complete success as a manufacturer. The successful imitation of some of 

 the finer of the ephemera is a perfect work of art to which the simple 

 making of a palmer bears little comparison. Of course, the scale on 

 which the drawings are given is not correct, being too large, and simply 

 so for the sake of rendering the instructions as comprehensible and 

 plain as possible. 



Now the directions given are the basis as indicated of all artificial fly- 

 making, and really but little can be here added to them with a view of 

 further instructing the would-be flymaker. I would suggest to any of my 

 readers who desire to acquire the complete art that they visit any manu- 

 facturing flymaker' s and notice the facility with which the girls tie the 

 most seemingly intricate patterns of artificial flies. The truth that 

 practice alone can render mechanical precision faultless would in such 

 <5ase be abundantly demonstrated to them. 



As, however, many will be dissatisfied if I do not furnish the 

 details of the making of a winged fly, I will do so, and for that purpose 

 I select the "great red spinner." These are the directions after 

 Konald : 



Take a piece of fine round gut, and either singe it in the candle at one 

 end or draw that end through the teeth, flattening it the while, in order 

 that it may be held the more tightly when whipped. Then holding a fine 

 length of silk waxed with either of the waxes before given the colour- 

 less for choice, in one hand, whip a part of it three or four times round 

 the end of the shank of the hook, and leaving a few inches of the thread 

 hanging down with the tweezers attached. 



Hold the burnt or nipped end of the gut in contact with the shank 

 of the hook and wind tightly the portion of thread first once or twice 

 round the gut, close to the end of shank, and then over the portion of 

 gut the three or four coils already made, and the shank of the hook, 

 leaving out the piece of thread still hanging down. 



Now bring two or three stylish whisks from a red hackle into the 

 position near the bend of the hcok, and bind them securely there for the 

 tail by means of the same end of silk as was last used. Bind in at the 

 same time the extremity of a piece of fine gold twist and also one end of 

 some dubbing of orange and red floss silk mixed. Then spin the floss 

 silk on the remnant of thread and wind it on the shank, or wind it on the 

 shank without spinning. 



Run the remnant round the shank three parts up it, and make it fast 

 there with the thread, then wind the gold twist over the coils made by 

 the remnant of thread in the manner shown, and make it fast also with 

 the thread. This completes the body. 



Bring the butt end of the red hackle, stained amber colour, into posi- 



