FLIES AND FLY FISHING 



Fig. 1. 



2nd. Having whipped the gut on to the hook, and 

 fastened in your hackle, as in fig. 1,* lay on to your hook : 

 1st, the tinsel A ; 2nd, the tail B ; 3rd, the body C. Take 

 two or three turns round them tightly with the tying silk 



E, and carry it up to the head, 

 as in fig. 2. 



3rd. Now wrap the body 

 material tightly round the hook, 

 and take one turn of the tying 

 silk round it. The wax should 

 be sufficient to hold it there. 

 Over this wind the tinsel neatly 

 and evenly, and take a turn of 

 the tying silk round both, as in 



Fig. 3. 



fig. 3. 



' NOTE. By an error of the draughtsman, the hackle feather has been 

 fastened in at the wrong end. See ties 2 and 3, which are right. 



