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ting from the other part as much as will do for the wings, 

 take hold of it with the finger and thumb of your left hand, 

 doubling it inwards so that each wing will lie inside to in- 

 side, then strip it from the stem, and place them upon the 

 back of the hook with the root end of the feather to the 

 end of the shank, then with that end of the silk you still 

 have hanging, whip them down with four or five laps, 

 and cut the root ends off, then whip to the end of the 

 shank, and that will form the head, whip back again and 

 separate the wings, then fasten the silk with two or three 

 halches ; cut off the end and the fly is completed. This 

 fly may be varied by lapping peacock and ostrich harl 

 round the body ; others by lapping it round the head ; and 

 others again round the head and tail ; and some by lapping 

 the same kind of dubbing round the head that you made 

 the body with. As I shall not class the salmon-flies with 

 those of the trout, I will here give you a list of those best 

 adapted for general use. The flies which are numbered 

 refer to those in the Engraving. 



No. 1 . This fly must be made as follows : The body 

 is made of two colours of wool or mohair, a small portion 

 of blue under the wings and near the tail, the remaining 

 part black, with gold twist and a black cock hackle, wound 

 round the body, warped with red silk ; tail, red ; wings, the 

 fine mottled feather of a turkey. 



No. 2. The body dubbed with blue and yellow mohair, 

 mixed with a little yellow towards the tail, warped with 

 red silk, gold flattened wire, and a black cock hackle under 

 the wings, and a ginger or buff one down the body, with 

 a light mottled grey feather from a mallard. 



