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HACKLE-FEATHER PUT 



Here is a complete 

 fly, with wings, body, 

 tail, and hackle for 

 legs wound under the 

 wings, and just before 

 them. 



You see here the 

 hackle feather whip- 

 ped on for the pur- 

 pose of making the 

 legs of a winged fly 

 or for making a plain 

 hackle or a palmer hackle. I will suppose you 

 going to make the fly, Fig. 6. You arm your 

 gut, as described at Fig. 1. ; you fasten on 

 your wings as shown at Fig. 2. ; and you then 

 whip on your hackle, as here represented, close 

 by the wings. You cut away butt-ends of 

 the hackle and wing fibres, and you whip your 

 silk down towards the bend. Whip on your 

 fibres or hairs for tail, and then spin on your 

 dubbing, which you wind up to the thick ends of 

 hackle and wing. Carry back towards the tail 

 your silk a little, and then wind on over the body 

 for two turns, in the same direction as yoar silk, 

 your hackle-feather, which you tie down, and 

 cutting off what remains of it unbound, bring 

 your silk through the fibres of the hackle behind 

 your wings, which divide, and pass your silk 





