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the same course may be taken as with the latter, but 

 the better way where it is large enough is to strip off 

 the fibres of one side, and then pare away the stem 

 with a sharp knife. This requires care lest the knife 

 slip and cut your hopes in twain. The same may be 

 done with a simple hackle where great neatness is 

 required, except that the stem does not need paring. 



The tinsel may be double, tied in on opposite sides 

 of the hook and wound contrary ways, but the effect 

 is hardly better than a simple twist. In the latter 

 avoid too many coils ; they should not exceed four 

 on hooks numbered not larger than one and a half. 



Two hackles, which, if the colors are well con- 

 trasted, produce a fine effect, are usually rolled to- 

 gether, but may be wound one after the other if 

 care is taken to pick out the fibres. . They are tied 

 in at one time and handled as though they composed 

 but one. 



A trout-fly may be made in the manner heretofore 

 directed for salmon-flies, omitting as much as you 

 please, or the wings may be laid together back to 

 back or face to face, held in that position in the left 

 hand, and applied to the hook after the fibres have 

 been pinched with the nails at the proper place. 

 Being secured in that way they resemble the wings 

 of the ephemeras closely ; whereas to make one of 

 the phryganidce a few fibres of one side may be 

 stripped off and tied on alone, lying close down upon 

 the hook. Remember the ephemeridce have 

 whisks, the phryganidce have none-; the wings of 

 the former stand up, of the latter lie down. Coarse 



