HOW TO TIE FLIES 149 



is dollars to doughnuts that the scraggly object 

 you can fashion will take fish almost as readily. 



In the brief compass of this chapter I can tell 

 you how to tie one or two flies only, but the 

 method is very much the same for all. For fur- 

 ther information see "Artificial Flies and How 

 to Tie Them," Shipley; "How To Tie Flies For 

 Trout and Grayling," McClelland; "Salmon and 

 Trout," Harris; "Trout-Stream Insects," Rhead; 

 or the author's "Fly Tier's Work-bench" which 

 ran in Outer's Book from October, 1912, to 

 August, 1913. 



The tools required are few and simple. A 

 professional fly-tier's vise is very convenient, but 

 for the tyro a simple toy-vise from the ten-cent 

 store will serve as well. You will need a pair 

 of embroidery scissors and a pair of spring pliers 

 or tweezers. All the other articles you can get 

 along without. Indeed you can get along with- 

 out a vise ; you will have to when on the bank of 

 a trout stream, so it is well to learn how in the 

 beginning. As to materials: a feather duster 

 from the ten-cent store will supply feathers, a 

 bit of shoemaker's wax (lacking the special wax 

 made for fly- tying) some shellac varnish, a spool 

 of winding silk, and a few snelled hooks. Re- 

 member, this is a short-cut to fly-tying, so you 



