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much of the fibers as you will make full use of. 

 You will soon learn about how much will be 

 required for any particular pattern of fly that 

 you are tying it takes only a few turns of the 

 hackle to make sufficient legs for a dry fly 

 and when you have finished winding on the 

 hackle it is much easier to have left only a bit 

 of bare quill at the butt to trim off short. 



The palmer style of 

 hackle is best fastened 

 first by its tip at the 

 tail-end of the body 

 and is then wound 

 s p i r a 1 1 y generally 

 over the body to- 

 ward the head. A 

 second hackle is often 

 used to make more 

 compact shoulders 

 the shoulder being 

 the part of the fly 

 where a shoulder be- 



A palmer fly, dressed very bushy, 

 and a spider fly 



just behind the head, 

 longs. 



Some accentuate the head of the fly by making 

 a little ball of herl which generally is of black 

 ostrich but may be green or brown at the 

 front-end of the body; and some put a couple 

 of turns of tinsel at the tail-ends of all bodies, 

 believing that this slight glitter enhances the 

 lure without destroying its identity. To the 

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