VI 



The Angler's Flies and How to Tie Them 



(Concluded) 



LIES are tied or dressed to a 

 distinctive style according to 

 whether they are intended for 

 dry flies, wet flies, or for hackles 

 or palmers. The latter two are 

 wingless, as they represent the 

 creeper form of insect life 

 which, in the case of aquatic 

 flies, lives under the surface of 

 the water preparatory to its 

 transformation into the winged state; conse- 

 quently such artificials are principally in- 

 tended to be fished wet though they may be 

 fished dry and are adapted especially for 

 such time when the fish are not feeding on 

 surface insects. A palmer-fly, so named from 

 the palmer- worm or caterpillar, is a wingless one 

 with the hackle wound the entire length of the 

 body; a winged artificial with "legs" extending 

 the whole length of the body is said to be palmer- 

 hackled or to have the body dressed "palmer" 

 or palmer fashion. Thus the larvae of land flies 

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