. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatori, describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing : illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. 434 AMERICAN ANGLER'? BOOK observations carefully, and kept a proper reckoning, by referring to our little chart, you will find that your voyage of exploration is nearly ended. By the foregoing you have found out what ma
. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatori, describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing : illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. 434 AMERICAN ANGLER'? BOOK observations carefully, and kept a proper reckoning, by referring to our little chart, you will find that your voyage of exploration is nearly ended. By the foregoing you have found out what materials the ship is built of, and how to put them together, and you ought by this time certainly to " know the ropes;" the mere tying on of the wings is nothing more than bending the sails. I have made the drawing below to show how easily it is done, 1 ^^.V : ."^:- / '^ .=^-. ^|^\v A-^ 3 Figure 1 is a feather with a section large enough for the wings of a fly for a No. 4 hook clipped from it. Figure 2 is the section removed. 3 is the section after once folding it. It is then folded again, compressed between the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, and laid on the back of the hook with the tips of the fibres pointing towards the bend. The manipulation which precedes the tying on of the wings, is the same as already described in making a Hackle, with these few exceptions:—First, in forming the body, it should be elongated somewhat towards the head. Secondly, the hackle should be shorter, or the fibres stripped from one side of the stem. For the legs of a winged fly, which the fibres of the hackle are intended to represent, are not as. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877. Philadelphia : E. H. Butler
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