ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



soaking in hot water facilitates this. As scales 

 and quill will take a stain some extraordinarily 

 fine results can be produced; manipulation of 

 these materials in tying the fly is aided by 

 softening the wing-ends in warm water. "Cello- 

 silk," a product used for surgical dressings, 

 much finer than the thinnest sheet celluloid, 

 offers most interesting possibilities; it will 

 stand sterilizing, that is boiling in water. (We 



Natural and artificial spinners (middle fly represents a spent gnat) 



wonder if anyone has experimented with 

 tinted bond paper or genuine vellum, perhaps 

 colored or mottled with a fine brush and the 

 thinnest of oil colors and then dipped in col- 

 lodion, marine glue, paraffine, linseed oil, or 

 varnished!) Mr. McClelland has pointed out 

 that newspaper print can plainly be seen through 

 the wing-feather of a starling laid over it, and 

 S. Howarth, quoting this, comments that no 

 other feathers are so suitable for the wings of 

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