DRESSING A TINSEL-RIBBED FLY. 81 



through the division, and round the bottom of 

 each wing, finishing at the head in the way 

 directed for fly, Fig. 5. A fly made carefully in 

 this way is a most general and killing one, want- 

 ing only, for higher finish, to be ribbed or tipped 

 with tinsel. 



I here present you 

 with a fly ribbed with 

 tinsel over the body. It 

 is a difficult fly to make, 

 and when you can make 

 it well, you may consider yourself a proficient in 

 the art of fly-dressing. Arm your gut, then tie 

 on your hackle for legs, and your wings as usual. 

 Cut away thick end of hackle and wings, and 

 wind your silk down to the tail. Attach your 

 tail, and then your gold or silver twist, as may be. 

 Spin on your dubbing, which wind up carefully 

 to the wings, fasten with a slip-knot and leave 

 your silk depending. Go back to the tail, and 

 take your gold or silver twist and lap it at 

 regular intervals over the body up to the wings; 

 fasten, and cut away the remaining parts of the 

 twist and dubbing ; then wind your hackle a 

 coupleof turns over twist and dubbing in the di- 

 rection of the tail, and fastening down the hackle 

 cut away the point of it. Bring your silk back 

 behind the wings ; divide them, and finish in the 

 way already taught. In the body of the fly repre- 

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