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eye or snell of the hook. When the wing has been 

 bound to the hook shank up to the end of the shank it is 

 bent over, reversed, so as to point downward along the 

 shank, and then bound with several windings which 

 not only make the fastening very firm but form the 

 head of the fly. The majority of good quality Amer- 

 ican flies are made in this way. Considerable insight 

 into the fly-tier's methods can be had by carefully dis- 

 secting a fly. Matched-wing flies have two wings and 

 are usually tied upon the smaller sized hooks, 10 to 

 14. Fluttering flies I have never used and for that 

 reason do not care to discuss. They are made with the 

 head at the bend of the hook and the wings pointing 

 up the shank toward the eye of the hook so that, 

 when drawn through the water, they will, presumably, 

 owing to the resistance, better imitate the struggles of 

 a shipwrecked insect. 



Since we are here writing principally for the begin- 

 ner it does not seem advisable to discuss at any length 

 the subject of dry flies ; for dry-fly fishing 

 is eminently a method which only the ^ 

 advanced student in the school of fly-casting should at- 

 tempt. Also dry-fly fishing is properly at home only 

 in England, where it is extensively practiced on clear, 

 slow-moving streams, for highly educated brown trout, 

 the fish we call also the German trout. Rather re- 

 cently it has been taken up to some extent by a few 

 American anglers on streams more or less suited to 

 this style of fishing; but, by and large, dry-fly fishing 



