ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



paper retractor or by thumb and forefinger of 

 left hand while you take a couple of turns of 

 the thread or a half -hitch to keep it so. When 

 the legs are completed your work will now look 

 like Fig. 4. 



It remains but to turn back your wing or 

 wings into place, to hold the same there by a 

 few half -hitches, and 

 to apply the finishing 

 touches (Fig. 5). If 

 the wings are not 

 thus reversed but are 

 secured at once in 

 their permanent po- 

 sition, you have a 

 "straight-wing" fly. Fig 5 



Supplementary 



Notes. Some bass and salmon flies espe- 

 cially are made with compound wings, auxiliary 

 wings of a contrasting color and of about 

 half the length of the main wings, being set 

 outside them; these are called wing shoulders. 

 When part of a wing is made of a front or 

 upper strip (generally about one-third the 

 width of the entire wing) of one color extending 

 its full length, and the posterior or under part 

 is of a contrasting feather, the first is denom- 

 inated simply the wing, or else the upper-wing, 

 and the latter is termed the under- wing. The 

 reverse or under, lighter and more lustrous side 

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