308 Fisninc iv AMERICAN WATERS. 
of the wood-duck, nor the brown mallard feather are equal in 
attraction and delicacy to the top-knot of the golden pheas- 
ant, or the feathers of the argo pheasant. The two lower 
rows of flies are copies of those used with success last year 
in Canada by Dr. Clerk, of Andrew Clerk & Co. 
FLY DRESSING. 
TROUT-FLIES. 
Fig. 1. Preparatory to snelling your hook, which means tying 
the hook to a silk-worm gut snell, wind the head of the 
shank with several turns of waxed silk. Wax for fly-tying 
is the same as shoemaker’s, only more clear and lighter col- 
ored. Then wind three or four times from near the bend 
of the hook up to the first thread at the head, and lay the 
end of the gut on the inside of the shank down near to the 
bend, and wind with the last silk thread down to the end, 
and fasten end as directed on the page of “ loops and ties,” 
leaving ends asl. Fig. 3 is the same as 1, only the end of 
silk at the bend end of the tie is cut short, whereas the 
two threads of 1 are seen on 2 as follows: 
Fig. 2. Place two hairs as antenn, and the hackle that you 
intend for the head in the direction of the bend of hook, 
and fasten them by several loops; then fasten the end of 
the duffing like 2 or 9, and wind it round the hook to form 
the body, winding it afterward with a thread of gold or 
silver twist, or a hackle feather like 4, fastened as at 10, 
and wind round the body. Then add the wings like 5, 
finishing off like 8; or cut from a feather a pair of wings 
like 6, and wind them from the head so they will maintain 
their present spread shape. Many tyers of trout-flies tie 
only one wing on, but it never falls so naturally as do the 
two-winged flies ; and, to imitate Nature perfectly, some 
flies require to be tied with four wings. Imitate the natu- 
ral fly as shown on the plate of “natural and artificial 
flies.” 
