24 THE ART OF FLY TYING. 



end of the bend of the wings with the wrapping 

 silk, four turns, and finish off with the invisible 

 knot. 



Some fly-tyers, in place of using the invisi- 

 ble knot, leave one-sixty-fourth of an inch of the 

 end of the hook bare after the wings of a fly are 

 in position and are wrapped on, but not fastened 

 off, and then bend the gut back over the wings. 

 Now throw over the bare end of hook which was 

 exposed by the bending back of the gut two or 

 three half hitches of the silk and varnish it, this 

 also makes a perfectly secure fastening. 



Should you desire at any time to make the 

 wings of a fly set up from the body, bend them 

 back toward the gut, and before you have 

 fastened them with the invisible knot, wind 1 two 

 or three turns of the tying silk around the body 

 as close to the wings as possible; by this means 

 you can make them set at any angle desired. 



SCALE WING FLIES. 



These, at times, are a very desirable fly, and 

 are more nearly like the natural insect than 



