ON FLY-MAKING. 



WINGED AND HACKLED FLIES, PALMER WORMS. 



In the next place I will describe to you the method 

 of making both WINGED and HACKLED FLTES, together 

 with the PALMER WORMS. We will now consider that 

 you have got all the materials requisite for making the 

 fly; such as a patridge's feather from the back, with the 

 downy part stripped off, and just as much feather left 

 as will make the wings. Hold the tip of the feather be- 

 tween the finger and thumb of your right hand, and 

 draw the fibres back with your loft hand so that they 

 stand the contrary way; take a quarter of a yard 

 of fine pale orange silk, and with a bit of shoemaker's 

 wax, rub about two inches at one end ; fix a num- 

 ber 1 hook in the vice with the point downwards and the 

 shank towards your right hand, then with the waxed 

 end of your silk give two or three laps round the hook, 

 and take your gut or hair, putting one end under the 

 shank better than half way, give a few laps round both 

 hook and hair till it comes to the end of the shank and 

 about two laps towards the bend to form the head of 

 the fly, then take the feather and put the tip end on the 

 back of the hook where you left the silk, keeping the 

 root end towards your right hand, and that side up that 

 grew downwards on the bird, lap your silk three times 

 round the feather, gut, and hook, then cut off the tip of 

 the feather that lies beyond the last lap of the silk, and 

 place the finger and thumb close to the feather, still 

 holding the vice in the left hand, and with the tweezers 

 take hold of the root end of the feather, keeping the in- 

 side towards the left hand, then with the right, lap it 



