THE ART OF FLY TYING. 



are more desirable, as they can be made with a 

 much smaller head. 



Suppose we desire to make the Queen of the 

 Waters. We select a piece of orange silk, a brown 

 hackle, a piece of gold tinsel, and a mottled 

 feather from the breast of the mallard duck, and 

 proceed exactly as we would for making a Palmer 

 fly, always leaving one-sixteenth of an inch of 

 the hook bare at the head in the^ making of a 

 winged fly to tie the wing on, as it will be firmer 

 and more secure and make a smaller head than 

 if it were tied around the fastening of the 



