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your silk, and carry it round the hook as far as you 

 intend the hackle or legs to extend, and hold it firm 

 between the forefinger and thumb of the left hand, or 

 fasten it at once. Then, with your pliers, carry the 

 hackle round the hook, close under the wings, down to 

 where you have already brought your silk and dubbing; 

 continue to finish your body, by carrying over the end 

 of the hackle, and when you have made the body of 

 sufficient length, fasten off, by bringing the silk twice 

 or thrice loosely round the hook, passing the end 

 through the coils to make all snug and right. 



Some finish the body of the fly thus : — When the 

 hackle is fastened, after it has made the legs of the 

 fly, the bare silk is carried up to the legs, and there 

 fastened. 



Second Method. — This manner of proceeding differs 

 from the first in the fixing on of the wings. When 

 you have fastened the gut and hook together to the 

 point where the wings are to be tied, apply the wings 

 to the hook with the butt of the feather laying upper- 

 most ; then, when the wings are well fastened, pull 

 them back into the natural position alternately; and, 

 having your silk firmly tied to the roots of the wings 

 (and not over the roots), the fly is to be completed 

 as in the first method, having cut ofi' the roots of the 

 feather. 



Third Method. — This includes the Irish mode of 

 tying flies, and is the plan generally adopted in those 

 places where flies are manufactured extensively for 

 sale. 



There are two ways of finishing a fly under this 

 head. 



If the wings are to be reversed or turned back, they 

 are to be tied to the hook first, but not immediately 

 turned back ; the silk is carried to the tail of the fly, 

 when the dubbing is carried round the hook until the 

 putting on of the hackle; the hackle is tied by the 

 point, and not by the butt. Having finished the body, 

 twist on the hackle close up to the wings, and fasten 

 by one or two loops ; then divide the wings, and pass 



