i84 THE DRY-FLY MAN'S HANDBOOK 



skew; in all cases where there is a sneck I have 



had some of "these hooks open 

 Hooks. out or break — you can never 



trust them. Round bend 

 straight hooks with strong wire (gauge No. 5 -021 in., 

 No. 6 '024, No. 7 •026), Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 Hutchinson's 

 Kendal sizes loop eye, are the most satisfactory as yet. 

 It is important that the eye should be a fair-sized one, 

 sufficiently large to take the gut twice through it, but 

 still neat. Warner's brazed eye is a nice shape and 

 size. I have found little difference between turn iip 

 or turn down eyes ; I tried small double hooks, but 

 found little or no advantage in their use." 



" I have found hackle patterns best, but much care is 



necessary in choosing suitable 



Flies. Green drake i. hackles, the shape and strength 



of fibre of the large wing 

 hackles being most important ; they should be taken 

 from old winter-killed birds." 



" I. Tail. — Cock pheasant tail, three strands." 



" Body. — Rofia grass, sometimes dyed green, ribbed 

 with fine gold tinsel or wire. Body hackle. — Cuckoo 

 (Plymouth Rock) cock's neck dyed green." 



" Wing. — Barred feather from side of French part- 

 ridge, slightly dyed green, tied hacklewise." 



" Head hackle. — Gray feather from breast gf English 

 partridge, or hen pheasant, dyed green in Crawshaw's 

 Green Drake." 



" Canadian Wood-duck drake makes an excellent 

 hackle for wings, undyed, but Egyptian goose is not 



