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Process III (Before whipping to the tail)

Before whipping to the tail, bind in body materials and ribbing projecting to the right. Whip to the tail, wind the body material, secure at tail with two turns, and cut off neatly. Turn the hackle to the tail as before, secure with turns of the ribbing material. and cut off, neatly finishing at the tail with the whip finish.

Stewart's Scotch spider patterns are a variant of Process II. The hackle, being soft. is rolled round the silk before being wound. The silk is then whipped to the tail and the fly finished there. Third Series.

To Dress a Winged Fly hackled at Shoulder Only. Process I. Is identical with Process I. of the First Series, except that a little more space is left at the head for the wings, and as a last step before the whip finish, a pair of ordinary wings are whipped on with several firm turns of silk, and the fly is finished with a whip finish at the head or behind the hackle, and the wing stumps are cut off close.

Process II. - Is identical with Process II. of the First Series, except that a pair of ordinary wings or Tweed wings are whipped on before tying on the hackle.