30 OLD FLIES IN NEW DRESSES 



well without a vice will be able to dress 

 them even better with a vice, and will be 

 able to dress flies at all sorts of odd times 

 and places where a vice could not be used ; 

 while he who has never dressed flies with- 

 out using one, will find that the imitations 

 he produces are anything but neat, when 

 he first tries to make them without his 

 vice. 



Alder and Caddis Flies 



These flies, as I have already explained, 

 have their wings in the position shown in 

 Figs. 3 and 4. 



Give a few turns of the tying silk round 

 the shank of the hook, beginning near the 

 eye and leaving enough room to put on 

 the hackle and wings. Carry it down the 

 shank in the Alder, going just beyond the 

 bend, and in the Caddis-flies generally 

 stopping well short of it, so that the body 

 may be perfectly straight. 



The material for the body and the tinsel, 

 if used, should now be tied in. I find it 

 best to tie the tinsel in first, not straight 

 out from the hook, but diagonally, as, if put 



