PRACTICAL FLY-FISHER. 



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 ; 



Leys ; 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 over 

 it, and so form the body of the fly ; then with a pair of 

 nippers seize the fibre end of the hackle, rib the body of 

 the fly neatly with it till you get where the silk was left 

 hanging down ; wrap the silk once or twice over the 

 hackle, fasten by the usual draw knot, and dress off. 



