ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



finger- and thumb-nails are an asset for this as 

 for other manipulations. Many tiers cut off 

 these projecting wing-ends, without thus turn- 

 ing them back, but this construction is not 

 nearly so durable.) 



6. With scissors cut off at a bevel the turned- 

 back wing-ends (dotted line in illustration), 

 and catch them in with thread. 



7. Strip the down from the butt of a hackle- 

 feather. With two or three more turns of thread 

 secure the hackle at the cleaned butt end, 



Step? 



placed on top of shank with quill lying between 

 the wings, the tip directed away from the hook 

 and with the outer (darker and glossier) side of 

 hackle facing you; that is, the hackle may 

 stand on edge (perpendicular plane), and in 

 working away from you this brings the bright 

 side to the front, or toward eye of hook. Carry 

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