310 Fisuinc in American WATERS. 
MOUNTING SALMON-HOOKS. 
Fig. 11. Wind on your silk-gut loop, and wind the end of your 
duffing and antenna, fastening it all at the head, and form- 
ing the head of hackle as shown by 14. The hackle should 
be doubled, as represented by 7; and, after the duffing is 
wound, the hackle should cover it like 13; or the hackle 
may be heavy like 12. Some persons use a vice to hold 
the hook, as 14; but the best artists at fly-tying do not 
use them. After the duffing, the antenne, and hackle are 
fastened, the body is usually wound with a cord of silver or 
gold, as 13 and 15, when the wings are fastened like 12 and 
15, the head and tail finished like the latter, and the ends 
of threads covered and closed off with shellac. This also 
fastens the tinsel at the head of the antenne; but with all 
your windings of hackle, dufting (the body), cord, or tinsel, 
carry with each your thread of silk, well waxed with trans- 
parent wax, and as nearly the color of the material you are 
winding as possible. First fasten well your hook to the 
snell, and then exercise taste and practice delicacy of ma- 
nipulation. After all, an houv’s instruction from an artist 
is worth more than all the books in Christendom on in- 
struction for making artificial flies. J prefer to purchase 
flies from those who follow the art for a livelihood; but 
all anglers should be able to tie a fly when in a wilderness. 
THE PONDERATING SINKER. 
This recent invention is not in general use, or known to 
many anglers. Ihave tried it. It may do for river and fresh- 
water fishings with a float, but for bottom fishing the hollow 
tracing sinker is vastly superior. The object for thus in- 
creasing the ponderosity of a sinker is to save the trouble of 
carrying numerous sinkers of different weights when going 
a-fishing, and to increase or decrease the weight without tak- 
ing off the sinker. 
Explanation of the Cut.—No.1 is the smallest size of the 
