ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



flat wings. And by superimposing one pair 

 upon another you may make double wings. 

 Cut away the outer two-thirds of the central 

 part, but leave a bit projecting from the angle 

 between the wings at the root of the scale, to 

 bind onto the back of the hook shank in order 

 to fasten them with added security. The wind- 

 ing-thread passes over this little tag and the 

 shank and between and under the wings; three 

 or four turns of the 

 thread are also taken 

 over the point of the 

 wing-V in front of the 

 wings, in finishing. The 

 writer ties these flies 



n , Pike-scale 



most successfully by flat wings 

 first catching in the 



hackle by its tip, then the tail-whisks (if any), 

 next winding the body, after which the hackle 

 is wound and the wings put on last. The sec- 

 ond sketch shows how a pair of upright wings 

 may be cut from a shad-scale for a dry fly. 

 They fold together along the median line. (See 

 next chapter for tying directions.) 



Gauze wings are made from the most delicate 

 fine-meshed gauze, stretched flat and glued over 

 an opening cut in a stiff pasteboard frame. The 

 outline of the wings to be cut out is then traced 

 with a camel's-hair pencil, and veining may like- 

 wise be simulated, or imitated and the gauze 

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