i86 THE DRY-FLY MAN'S HANDBOOK 



Fig. 29 



black and white speckled hackle, dyeing first in Craw- 



shaw's slate lightly and then finishing in their iron 

 Fig. 28 blue. This feather 



should be wound on 

 so that when finished 

 it leaves about ^ to 

 ^ in. bare shank to 

 the eye. Before ty- 

 ing the hackle a small 



piece of india-rubber tubing about ^ in. long (a 



piece from the small tubing used for snapshot camera 



shutters is about the 



right size of bore) is 



put on to the shank 



of hook and left rest- 

 ing on the jaws of 



the vice, as shown in 



Fig. 28. The hackle 



is now divided and 



spread out in two 



equal parts on each 



side of and at right 



angles to the hook 



shank ; the silk is 



then taken over and 



under in a figure-of- 

 eight to keep the 



wings in position, as 



in Fig. 29 ; then make a half-hitch on the tail side 



of the wings, pass the silk through the rubber tube 



