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pare it with a sharp knife at each end till it tapers 

 nicely, and slip it over the loop of gut ; if possible, 

 do all this without splitting the straw. Then, with 

 some red-brown silk, waxed with the colorless wax, at- 

 tach it firmly by several turns opposite the point of the 

 hook and wind spirally up to the loop. (See fig. 43. ) Se- 



Fig. 43. Fig. 44. 



cure this end of the straw and the body is finished. Now 

 take the hackle and twist it as shown in Figure 44, and 

 you are ready for the wings. 



The sort of feather suitable is shown in Figure 45. 

 Carefully proportion the sizes of the two feathers you se- 

 lect to the size of the body and hook, and as this fly is in- 



Fig. 45. 



tended to float, it is advisable to fix the feathers the con- 

 cave side outwards, but care must be taken that this 

 concavity is not too great, or a very ugly appearance is 

 produced. The appearance of this fly when finished is 

 shown at Figure 45. The particular dressing is thus 

 described : 



