12 PRACTICAL FLY-FISHER. 



If the fly be large, it will perhaps suit your pur- 

 pose to wrap with double silk to the setting on of the 

 wings ; then leave one end of the silk hanging down ; 

 work out the remainder of the fly with one end, and 

 with the other rib the body of the fly. 



The three patterns given are all intended to repre- 

 sent the same insect, 



When you have made an artificial fly, by immer- 

 sing it in a large glass of clear water, and looking at it 

 in a good light, you will readily perceive whether it 

 is like what you intended. 



To make a Palmer fly. Hav- 

 ing laid by you the materials, viz. : 

 hook, gut, feather of cock's neck, 

 about one and half inch long, herl 

 of Ostrich or Peacock ; tie the hook and gut together, 

 beginning half way down the shank ; wrap to the end, 

 one turn back again, lay on the herl, then the tinsel, 

 then the feather (root end), taking a turn with the silk 

 over each ; wrap down to where you began. With 

 the aid of nippers, wrap down with the herl, rib over 

 that with the tinsel, then with the hackle ; to finish off 

 neatly, tie down the hackle, then take a turn or two 

 with the herl and tinsel, and fasten off with a double 

 draw knot. 



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