158 THE DRIFFIELD ANGLER. 



then take the hackle by the point, with the 

 finger and thumb of the right hand, and make 

 two turns with the hackle at the very top of 

 the hook, close to each other ; then lap the 

 hackle neatly down, between every lap of the 

 gold, till you come to the tail of the fly, 

 where you will find the end of the silk, and 

 bring the point of the hackle tight round the 

 hook at the tail ; make a lap, and two or 

 three nooses, and with your finger and thumb 

 press down the hackle all round the hook, 

 and with your needle put the hackle to rights, 

 and the fly is finished. 



When the fly-maker gets into this method, 

 it being the quickest, easiest, and neatest way 

 of making Trout- flies, he will never attempt 

 to make them by any other. 



No. 4. The brown partridge. The wings 

 are of a feather from a partridge's tail (not 

 the red) ; the body a sable fur, and gold- 

 coloured hog's wool, well mixed ; in making 

 it proceed in the same way as with the great 

 whirling dun ; the hook No. 7. 



