ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



A much simpler stunt is to strip the fibers from 

 one half of the feather.) 



Put a drop of white shellac from the small 

 end of a toothpick, or a similar sliver of wood, 

 on end of winding to further secure and to 

 waterproof it. (A good plan is to keep a little 



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varnish in a corked vial, and to have a tooth- 

 pick inserted into bottom of cork.) Spar var- 

 nish does not dry so quickly as shellac, but is 

 better protection. In either case avoid obstruct- 

 ing the eye of the hook. And eureka! your fly 

 is finished. 



A friend in a rare moment of supreme con- 

 fidence ('tis thus, one by one, that most of 

 these little kinks are acquired) has revealed to 

 me his "lazy-man's trick" for facilitating the 

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