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only : there cannot be too iiiucli SciiH in coni- 

 menclation of this l\y, bo'.b for its duration, and 

 the snort it aiTords the angler : The size of the 

 hook it ib made 0)1, in No. 6. 



THE GRANy/3I FLY, OR GREEN-TAIL. 



Conies on about the beginning of April, if 

 the weather is warm, being a ver}? tender fly, 

 and cannot endure the cold. When they first 

 appear on th.e water, they do so in great quan- 

 tities, in bright mornings; you may begin to. 

 fish with them from six o'clock in the morning 

 till eleven ;. then you WiU iSnd the browns come 

 on, which you must use, as the tish wiil not 

 touch the granams as long as the browns com- 

 tinue ; about five o'clock in the evening you- 

 may use the granams again with success, the 

 browns having then totally disappeared for tiiat 

 day. The granam-fly is a four v^inged fly: as 

 it s\vims down the water its wings lie flat on its 

 back, it has a small bunch of eggs, of a green 

 colour, v,diich gives it the name of the G) ten-fail 

 Jiy ', as soon as it lights on tlie water, it drops 

 its eggs; it is of short duration, not lasting 

 above a \xeek, and then totally disappears for 

 that year. The wings are made from a feather 

 out of the wing of a partridge or pheasant,, 

 which is shaded like the wing of the fly ; the 

 body is made of the fur from a hare's face, or 

 ear," and a grizzled hackle of a cock wrapt 

 under the but of the wings. The hook. No. 8. 



THE SPIBER FLY 



Comes on about the twentieth of April, if 

 the weather is warm^ and coiitiiiues on about 



