22 THE DRY-FLY MAN'S HANDBOOK 



silk is used for a splice or any other repair (after 

 binding carefully with it) the necessity for an efficient 

 finishing knot is very urgent. The whip finish is the 

 only safe one either for flies, rods, or tackle, and I do 



Fig. io 



Fig. 9 



Fig. 8 



not remember to have seen the method of making 

 the whip finish In the middle of a joint described 

 before in an angling book. 



When the whipping is finished the end of the 

 waxed silk (marked A in Fig. 8) is carried some 

 distance down the joint in a loop and the turns 



