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Trout, that is, where you choose to use a single-handed rod and small 

 flies. When, however, you use Salmon-flies for them, you must use 

 Salmon gut and rod. 



Of tying-silks, you require yellow, red and orange, of three or four 

 different substances ; for fine, the ravellings of a lady's dress will do ; 

 for the other sizes, you can purchase small reels of required colors of 

 China silk. 



Of tinsel, you require flat gold and flat silver of various sizes, and 

 also gold and silver twist. Some few flies require a crimped kind of 

 flat, broad gold and silver. 



You now require a vice to screw on to your stand, to hold your hook 

 firm while you dress your fly, and a pair of tweezers to hold on to the 

 end of a hackle, thread, or silk, etc., while you use your hand for any 

 thing else ; small flat pieces of lead, to prevent your feathers being 

 blown away ; a pin or two ; cobblers-' wax, and a bottle of copal varnish, 

 or liquid wax still better. 



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DIAGRAM OF THE VICE Kh-QLIKKD 



Here is the pattern of a portable vice : A is the frame which is se- 

 cured on to the table by E ; B is a movable vice inserted into frame 

 through square holes at c and D. The upright pillar B is squared so as 

 to fit into c and D ; F G is a screw running through the upper part so 

 as to tighten the vice, the back side of which has a hinge unseen at I. 

 H is the top of the vice showing the position in which the fly is held. 



TO DRESS A FLY. 



" The art of fly-trying requires the rarest combination of manual skill, 

 judgment and fancy, and the happiness of invention with which these 

 gorgeous deceits are often devised, and the neatness with which they 



