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tying on drop-flies, illustrated. A gang of hooks, illustrated. 

 Receipts. For making wax. For dyeing gut. For dyeing feathers 

 and dubbing ........... 405 



CHAPTER XVI. 



FLY-MAKING. 



Implements. Hand- Vice, Spring-Pliers, &c. Book for holding mate- 

 rials. Materials. Hooks. Gut. Tinsel. Dubbing. Hackles. 

 Wings. To tie a plain Hackle. To tie a Palmer. To make a fly 

 with wings 419 



CHAPTER XVII. 



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BOB-MAKING. 



Woods used in making rods. Wood and Malacca cane for fly-rods. 

 Materials used by amateur rod-makers. To make a fly-rod of three 

 pieces. To make a tip. To stain a rod. Oiling and varnishing. 

 Wrapping splices and putting on rings. To make a " rent and 

 glued," or quarter-sectioned tip. Draw-plate and V tool illustrated 

 and explained. Manner of splitting cane and joining the pieces of 

 a quarter-sectioned tip described by diagram. Making middle 

 pieces and tips without splices. Manner of making a fly-rod to be 

 adjusted to light or heavy fishing. Ferule-making . . . 441 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



FISH-BREEDING. 



Causes of the decrease of Salmon and Trout. Remarks on fish-ponds 

 and the manner of stocking them. Artificial Fish-Breeding with 

 illustrations, showing the manner of expressing the ova and milt, 

 the arrangement of hatching-troughs, and the growth of the fish ; 

 from " A Complete Treatise on Artificial Fish-Breeding," by W. H. 

 Fry, Esq., with some remarks of the author of this work. The 

 Aquarium its appropriate size and form, and manner of stocking 

 it with fish and introducing suitable aquatic plants . . 459 



