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soft pile of the feather towards the tail, as this 

 will make the tag appear even, and give a 

 running knot, the less knots the better at this 

 point to prevent clumsiness ; now take a piece 

 of pig hair, and twist it round the tying silk (see 

 the pig hair round the silk, and the hackle tied 

 on just above it), roll the pig hair over the body, 

 giving it a turn or two between the ostrich tag 

 and the hackle, that when the hackle is struck 

 it may appear from the centre of the fly to the 

 shoulder; the pig hair is now on, roll the 

 tinsel over it slopingly till you come within the 

 eighth of an inch of the loop ; take hold of 

 the end of the hackle in the right hand, and 

 roll it up on its edge, or partly on its back, in 

 rotation with the tinsel, and tie it down with 

 two knots, clip off the end of the hackle and 

 tinsel. 



If the fly is to be made with the hackle 

 struck only round the shoulder (see hackle tied 

 in at shoulder, on the second fly in this plate. 

 I have not numbered the three flies on this 

 plate, to distinguish it from the plate of an 



EASY METHOD OF MAKING A SALMON FLY.) ScC 



pig hair body and tinsel rolled on ; shift your 

 hand up the hook in the left, and hold by the 



