ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



it in this rubber slit. No knots are made in 

 the tying-thread excepting possibly a single 

 half-hitch the better to hold the work at some 

 critical stage until it is permanently secured 

 when the fly is completed; it is 

 "carried along" with the progres- | /wtfMji 

 sive manipulations of the other f 

 parts of the fly all the way to the [ 

 finish. fl 



A dry fly in the Halford pattern j 

 (split-winged) differs mainly from 

 a wet fly in the style of the wings; \ 

 its wings are double there are | 

 four, two on each side, one super- 

 imposed upon the other; they 

 curve or flare out, having their 

 convex surfaces facing each other j 

 and toward the body of the fly; 

 and they are set upright (cocked- 

 winged) or inclined a little for- 

 ward, toward the head of the fly 

 (eye-end of the hook). 



3 If you make the wings from tb ^ h a n er 

 strips taken from a feather of the 

 first shape pictured, you may cut them from 

 both sides of the same feather, a pair of strips 

 for each double-wing from each side; but if 

 from a feather of the second shape shown the 

 shape of the long wing-feathers most widely 

 used you must get your strips from corre- 

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