LESSORS Itf FLY-MAKING. 73 



MATERIALS REQUIRED. Hooks, any size you prefer, 

 but usually about number seven or eight Sproat, Pennell 

 or O'Shaughnessy ; green whipping silk, peacock herl, 

 two whisks of any dark feather for tail, black hackle, gut. 



Directions. Take the hook between the left forefinger 

 and thumb, place the gut underneath the hook shank, 

 having first crushed the end of it between your teeth ; 

 begin whipping the hook and gut together, leaving about 

 one-eighth of an inch of the shank untouched (fig. 30). 

 Continue whipping till that part of the shank exactly 

 opposite the point is reached, and then tie with the half 



Fig.31. SHOWING TAIL READY FOR ATTACHMENT, AND TINSEL ATTACHED. 



hitch shown, drawing it tight. Of course, your silk 

 has been previously well waxed. 



Now, take two whisks or fibers of any dark feather 

 to form the tail, and placing as shown at Figure 31, take 

 one turn of the silk and fasten as before. Then take a 

 piece of tinsel and attach it also by means of one turn 

 and the half hitch knot. Then run your silk in one or 

 two turns round the hook to end of shank, drawing it 

 tight between the uncovered part of the shank and the 

 gut. Now wind the tinsel evenly up the shank, holding 

 it between the fingers or the pincers, take one turn round 



