110 BUST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



hackle are to be shortened all over, sometimes 

 barbed only a little, and sometimes close under- 

 neath) leaving the whole length of fibres on the 

 top, or back of the fly, which makes it swim belter, 

 and on a whirling round water, kills great fish. 

 Your hook for this palmer, No. 5. 



GOLDEN PALMER, OR HACKLE. 



The same dubbing, ribbed with gold twist and 

 a. red backle over all. 



SILVER HACKLE. 



Made with black body also, silver twist over 

 that, and a red hackle over all. 



The variation that is to be observed in making 

 thzgold and silver palmers is this, that when you 

 whip the end of the hackle to the bend of the 

 hook, you must also do the same to the gold or 

 silver twist, and first wind either of them on the 

 dubbing, observing that they lie flat on it, and 

 then lasten off; afterwards proceed with the 

 hackle as directed : or you may wind the hackle 

 on the dubbing first, and rib the body with either 

 of the twists afterwards. 



These are the standard hackles in fly-fishing, 

 and are taken any month in the year, from nine to 

 eleven in the morning, and from one to three in 

 the evening, and upon any water; though you 

 must have different sizes of then], and dubbed 

 with different colours, that you may always be able 

 to suit either a clear or dark water, or a bright and 

 cloudy atmosphere ; observing, that small light- 

 coloured Jiies are for clear waters and skies, and 

 the largest for dark and cloudy ones. 



These palmers (as I sard before) being taken 



