50 TO DRESS FLOATING FLIES 



trim and arrange the body 

 with the scissors (fig. 32). 



The ' following is Mr. 

 Marryat's method of dressing 

 Bumbles, so that they will 

 F - stand dry-fly fishing ; but it is 



of the utmost importance in 



this case to use tying-silk, which, when waxed, is 

 the same colour as the floss silk body of the fly : 

 Fasten in the hackle as for an ordinary buzz or 

 hackle fly. Take a length of floss silk for the 

 body, a strand of peacock herl, either bronze or 

 green, according to the pattern-fly, and a piece of 

 fine flat gold tinsel ; lay all these on top of the 

 hook at the shoulder, tapering them by cutting off 

 diagonally, and bind them firmly with the tying- 

 silk, carrying it clown to the tail-end (fig. 33). 



Fig- 33- 



