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CHAPTER IX. 



Mr. Halford's Work, ' Floating Flies, and how to Dress them ' 

 The Experience of an Amateur Fly-tyer Mr. George 

 Currell Pleasure to be derived from the Ability to tie one's 

 own Flies Advice to Beginners Fly-tying Vices Mr. 

 Holland's Pattern of Vice A Vice and its Vices Good 

 and Bad Silk Waxing Silk Varnishing Recipe for 

 Varnish Good Materials Necessary Order and Disorder 

 Scissors Tweezers Utility of Wooden Trays Fly- 

 tying by Lamplight Eyeglass for Fly-tying The Use of a 

 Trout-rod Casting with a Trout-rod Different Styles of 

 Casting How to cast Overhead and Steeple Casting 

 Casting Horizontally Switching Casting in Windy 

 Weather Casting Dead against Wind Casting with a 

 Cross-wind Utility of changing Mode of Casting Use of 

 Slack Line Striking : the Right and the Wrong Way- 

 Reasons for not striking from the Reel The Timbridge 

 Trout. 



ARTIFICIAL FLY-MAKING. 



AT the close of the previous chapter I stated that 

 I had reasons for not entering into the subject of 

 the manufacture of artificial trout-flies. It had 

 originally been my intention to do so when I 

 commenced the present work. On further reflec- 

 tion I determined to abstain from so doing. Not 

 by reason of wishing to avoid the trouble, for the 



