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^ shoulder of the fly, how do you strike it in its 

 ^ proper place ? 



A. — I hold the hook in my left hand by the 

 bend, and with the right take hold of the stem 

 of the hackle and roll it round the shank on its 

 back, and tie it down (the fly may be ribbed and 

 hackled from the tail like the fourth fly in the 

 plate). 



Q. — The hackle, body, tail, and tinsel now 

 neatly tied, how do you tie on the wings ? 



A. — I now hold the fly in my left hand by 

 the body, drawing the fibres underneath my 

 finger and thumb out of the way, lay on the 

 wings double, catch them under the nails of 

 the left and give two laps of the tying silk over 

 them, press them down at this place with the 

 right nail divide and let the fibres of the 

 hackle spring up between them, cut off the 

 roots, lap the silk closely over the head and 

 fasten with two knots (see the cock tail at the 

 bottom of this plate). 



Note. — The wings of this fly were tied on 

 first, as seen, and turned up last; the fuller 

 the fly is at the shoulder the more the wings 

 will stand upright on the back, and it often 



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