THE ART OF FLY TYING. I/ 



ing it larger in the centre, with a gradual taper 

 towards the head and tail. Catch hold of the 

 surplus silk with the plyers and let them hang ; 

 fasten it with three turns of the tying silk, and 

 cut off the remainder close to the wrapping. 

 Wrap your tying silk around the gut as before, 

 catch hold of the loose end of the tinsel with 

 the plyers and wrap it first four turns around 

 the shank of the hook immediately below the 

 body and underneath the hackle, and then 

 spirally up and around the body, allowing the 

 turns to be about one thirty-second of an inch 

 or the width of the tinsel apart. Finish off 

 where you tied off the body one-quarter inch 

 from end of hook and cut off the surplus tinsel. 

 Wind the tying silk around the gut as before, 

 catch hold of the end of the hackle by its quill 

 with the plyers, and wind it spirally edgeways 

 around the body of the fly between the wrap- 

 pings of the tinsel, underside of the feather to- 

 ward the point of the hook, up to where you 

 have tied in your body, where it must be wound 

 closely three or four times, taking care not to 



