80 BAIT AND FLY FISHING. 



(any colour according to taste) for body 

 and legs, and worsted threads of different 

 colours for abdomen. 



When dressing them, I tied a two-ply gut 

 up the hook, within three thicknesses of 

 the thread at the upper end ; I then laid the 

 wings up the gut, took two turns, clipped 

 off the ends of the wings, brought them 

 back, taking a turn to keep them so. I 

 then divided the wings equally, bringing 

 the thread between them, and reversing the 

 following turn to keep them apart. I then 

 tied a loop knot, putting in the rolling 

 feather, three threads of worsted of different 

 colours, and the tinsel, and drew the knot 

 firm. I next bound the worsted threads 

 say black, white, and red round down the 

 hook, side by side ; I then put round the 

 rolling feather and the tinsel, adding a little 

 dyed pig's hair at the end, and tying all up 

 with four knots. The worsted threads may 

 be altered by tying the dark first over the 

 other two for three-eighths of an inch, 

 keeping them tight down the hook; then 

 taking the next colour in the same way, and 

 finishing with the last, and fixing them all 



