30*2 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PAKT II. 



English, a very unnatural and shapeless fly. Which being 

 done, cut away the end of your towght, and fasten it. 

 And then take your dubbing which is to make the body 

 of your fly, as much as you think convenient, and holding 

 it lightly, with your hook, betwixt the finger and thumb 

 of your left hand, take your silk with the right, and twist- 

 ing it betwixt the ringer and thumb of that hand, the 

 dubbing will spin itself about the silk, which when it has 

 done, whip it about the armed-hook backward, till you 

 come to the setting-on of the wings. And then take the 

 feather for the wings, and divide it equally into two parts ; 

 and turn them back towards the bend of the hook, the 

 one on the one side, and the other on the other of the 

 shank; holding them fast in that posture betwixt the fore- 

 finger and thumb of the left hand: which done, warp 

 them so down as to stand and slope towards the bend of 

 the hook ; and having warped up to the end of the shank, 

 hold the fly fast betwixt the finger and thumb of your left 

 hand, and then take the silk betwixt the finger and thumb 

 of your right hand; and, where the warping ends, pinch 

 or nip it with your thumb-nail, against your finger, and 

 strip away the remainder of your dubbing from the silk : 

 and then with the bare silk, whip it once or twice about ; 

 make the wings to stand in due order ; fasten, and cut it 

 off. After which, with the point of a needle, raise up the 

 dubbing gently from the warp ; twitch off the superfluous 

 hairs of your dubbing; leave the wings of an equal length, 

 your fly will never else swim true ; and the work is done. 

 And this way of making a fly, which is certainly the best 

 of all other, was taught me by a kinsman of mine, one 

 Captain Henry Jackson; a near neighbour; an admirable 

 fly-angler ; by many degrees the best fly-maker that ever 

 I yet met with. 1 And now that I have told you how a fly 



(I) There peeds nothing mote to be said of these Directions, than that hun- 

 dreds have, by means of them alone, become excellent fly-makers. 

 For makiof a palmer, or hackle, see the Notes on Chap. VII. 



