32 FLIES. 



silk, and twist it towards the wings ; fasten 

 in the hackle for legs, and wind it neatly 

 under the wings so as to hide the ends of 

 the cut fibres ; the silk must be fastened 

 ahove the wings. In making flies, our own 

 experience would lead us to think that it 

 is not necessary to copy nature narrowly, or 

 to adopt the fly which at the time happens 

 to be on the water. Fancy flies, as the 

 fly-makers term them, often take fish 

 where others fail. The fly at the end of 

 the line is called a stretcher, and the next 

 droppers ; the first dropper should be about 

 a yard from the stretcher, and the second 

 about three quarters of a yard from the 

 first, made on pieces of gut about four 

 inches long, to detach at pleasure. 



