78 REVERSING THE WINGS. 



fact, such wings, for such flies, are placed on 

 in a way quite the reverse from that shown in 

 Fig. 2. 



This next cut re- 

 presents an ordinary 

 winged fly, one of the 

 easiest of the sort you 

 can make, in nearly a 

 finished state. You 

 have only to cut off 



the silk which is left hanging at the spot at which 

 you have finished the fly. You wonder perhaps 

 at the position of the wings, pointing very diffe- 

 rently from the way you left them when you 

 first tied them on as directed in the explanation 

 accompanying Fig. 2. I will explain to you 

 the different operations that have caused this 

 change of position. When you wind up your 

 dubbing to the setting on of the wings, you 

 fasten your dubbing there, and pinch off all 

 of it that is superfluous. You fasten your silk 

 with a slip-knot. You then take the wing 

 fibres between the forefinger and thumb of your 

 left hand, and reverse them, bending them down 

 over the back of the body of your fly, with the 

 tops of the fibres pointing towards the bend of 

 your hook. Whilst so bent and held down, you 

 pass your silk behind the wings, between them 

 and the end of the shank of the hook, and you 



