84 DRESSING A PALMER-HACKLE. 



hook, and not being entangled, by some getting tied 

 down by the others, or hitching in them uncouthly. 

 Arm your gut, and attach your hackle, as shown at 

 Fig. 7. Then wind your hackle to the bend of the 

 hook, and there fasten. Cut away your silk and 



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the point of your hackle feather. .Now with your 

 dubbing needle pick out any of the fibres that 

 may be caught in the winding on, and clip away 

 the points of those that project irregularly. 



Before you now is a palmer-hackle, a most 

 useful bait, representing a 

 caterpillar. Arm your gut, 

 and then attach your hackle 

 feather as usual, together 

 with some floss silk, pea- 

 cock, or ostrich harl, or 



dubbing, to form the body. They must be at- 

 tached near the end of the shank. First wind 

 your floss silk, or harl, or other material for the 

 body, down to the bend of the hook. Then wind 

 your hackle for legs all down the body, and fasten 

 at the tail. Clip away all that remains at the end 

 of the hackle and body. Palmer hackles are fre- 

 quently ribbed with gold or silver twist. When 

 you use it, attach your hackle first, then your 



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twist or tinsel, and lastly your harl or dubbing. 

 Xote, as a general rule, that the material you 

 attach first, is that which is to be wound round 

 your hook last. Having attached hackle, tinsel, 



