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not so perfect as the beautiful engravings of 

 the twelve salmon flies. 



Before I begin the gaudy salmon fly, I will 

 here show how the palmer is made, in two or 

 three ways. 



TO MAKE THE PALMER, OR DOUBLE-HACKLE FLY. 



You tie on the hook firmly as before, and 

 prepare two hackles for the fly, as you may 

 see in the plate of Feathers, two hackles tied 

 together at the roots, which keeps them on 

 their sides evenly while rolling them on ; you 

 hold the hook by the shank in your left hand, 

 tie in the hackles, the inside downwards, that 

 when tied on and finished, the outside of the 

 feathers appears to the eye (see the hackle tied 

 in at the points, and the body and tinsel rolled 

 on, at the bottom of the plates of Trout Flies for 

 the season) ; tie in the tinsel to the body, and 

 the peacock's harl, or mohair, or floss silk, to 

 form it, at the same place — turn the hook in 

 your fingers, and hold it by the bend; take 

 the harls in your right hand, and roll them up 

 to the head, or mohair, or your floss silk in the 

 -same way; take a turn of the tying silk over, 



