FLY-FISHING FOR TROUT 105 



Wings from the crow, white goose, brown hen, 

 and mallard duck, with feathers from the breast of 

 the latter, turkey tail feathers, peacock tail or 

 sword feathers. 



The silks to be used can be procured as they 

 are wanted from any dry-goods store. 



Let us now make a hackle fly, say a brown 

 hackle, which is a killing fly everywhere for trout, 

 and will probably take more fish in a year than 

 any other one fly known to anglers in five years. 

 Set your vice in place on the edge of a good firm 

 table. Take a No. 6 Sproat hook (see Fig. 33), 

 and tie a snell to it, commencing an eighth part of 

 the shank away from the end (for there is where 

 your head of the fly will be, and you don't want it 

 to be too large). Now take two of three fibres of 

 the peacock's tail feathers (called herl), and tie in 

 the ends as shown (Fig. 56) ; wind them round the 

 shank till within one-eighth of an inch of the end ; 

 and now wind your tying silk around the herl, that 

 is, wound in a loose coil to where you want the 

 herl to be secured (one-eighth of an inch from the 

 end). Now tie the herl with a half-hitch (Fig. 57), 

 and cut off the loose part. 



Now take a hackle, and, by stroking it from 



