Ray

The wings on the Heneryville Special are tied down, tent-style to imitate the wings of the caddisfly which folds its wings back over their bodies when not in flight. J. Edson Leonard explains in his book "Flies" that the wings tied points down is one of the oldest ways to tie wings and that wings tied in this manner are less flexable. I have also seen in many fly tying instruction books that it really doesn't make any real difference which way the wings point.
It really is the option of the tier. Tiers today seem to perfer the look of the fly with the wings points up but years ago tiers perfered points down.

Larry