10 PRACTICAL FLY-FISHER. 



made after the above simple method, (varying the 

 colour of the material, of course,) and I can make 

 honourable mention of at least one, who never fishes 

 without his favourite " Snipe and yellow Bloa," from 

 the beginning to the end of the season. 



To make a winged Fly as per 

 figure. Having laid by you the 

 materials, consisting of 



Wings; a piece of feather, stripped from a 

 Snipe's quill ; 



Body ; yellow silk ; 



Legs ; black Cock's hackle ; 



take hook and gut as before, and with the waxed silk 

 begin as before; wrap neatly and tightly till within 

 two or three turns of the shank end of the hook ; take 

 the feather for wings,lay the feather's point the proper 

 length between your finger and thumb along the hook, 

 and take two or three turns over it for the head of the 

 fly ; bend the gut between the second and third 

 fingers of your left hand, and with the scissors clip off 

 the root end of the feather. Wrap the silk back again 

 once under the wings, setting them upright ; with the 

 point of the dubbing-needle divide equally the wings, 

 crossing the silk between them. Lay the hackle for 

 legs (which should be about an inch and quarter long) 

 root end towards the bend of the hook, wrap your silk 



