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mohair between your fingers, break it over and over again 

 into small pieces, lengthen it out and twist it round the 

 silk toward the left, as otherwise it will unlay in wind- 

 ing ; wind the silk and mohair together round the shank 

 to the shoulder ; leave a space of bare hook at the head 

 suiBcient for the wings. Wind in loose coils first the tinsel 

 and then the hackle, and fasten both at the shoulder. 

 Strip two wings from feathers that have been taken from 

 the opposite sides of the bird, place them together, hiold 

 them firmly on the hook with the left forefinger and 

 thumb, and fasten them securely ; cut off the ends, insert 

 a piece of herl, wind it over the head and tie it down. 

 Lay the end of the silk back down the shank, ar:d take 

 three turns with the other part over silk, hook and gut; 

 pass the gut end through the loop three times and draw 

 the silk tight. 



Two turns of silk should hold the different parts dur- 

 ing the entire operation, and a couple of half hitches 

 under the wings at the shoulders are sometimes used to 

 fasten off, and the feathers should be mated to make neat 

 wings ; and if they are laid right side out they will close 

 round the hook ; if otherwise, they will stand out. Do 

 not fail to varnish at the head with wood varnish, or 

 some other kind that will dry rapidly. The hackle may 

 be introduced at the shoulder. When herl or floss is 

 used for the body, it is wound on separately from the 

 tying silk, which is sometimes passed in open coils after- 

 ward. A second hackle of a different color, or a feather 

 wound like a hackle, may be introduced after the first, 

 or after the wings and before the head is finished, and is 

 called the legs. The wings must be tied above the dub- 

 bing on the bare hook, or they will be liable to turn, 

 especially where floss silk is used on the body. The 

 following is a list of Canadian salmon flies ; 



