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May-fly. It is generally considered that the 

 fish are so ororo^ed with their favourite insect, 

 they cannot be tempted with anything the 

 amateur can offer them. But long experience 

 has taught me, that more fish may be killed 

 with the Minnow, in the fortnight after the 

 Green Drake has danced his bright hour on 

 the stage of life, than in any three fortnights in 

 the whole year. 



Fig. 9. Plate III. is the representation of a 

 very singular bait. In Wales I have heard it 

 called the Crab and Cad-bait. Perhaps I 

 cannot better recommend it, than by saying it 

 is a favourite among the poachers ! This fact 

 may, at any rate, be so far in its favour as to 

 show that it is possessed of very killing proper- 

 ties. I have imitated the natural insect, as 

 shown in fig. 9., and found it admirable. Why 

 the creature should have been called a " Crab," 

 I know not. It much more resembles a smaU 

 kind of lizard. But it is, in fact, the young 

 Stone-fly, before the wings are sufficiently 

 grown to have become available as wings. It 

 will be seen in April — possibly by the latter 



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