FLY-FISHINO. ^77 



Oil this month, and for the remainder of the season : 

 any of those noticed for July or August may also be 

 used occasionally. All the flies I have enumerated are 

 for killing Trout j but you may also take Chub and 

 Dace with them, and, perchance, a Salmon. For making 

 these flies, mohair of various colours is used ; also 

 seal's wool, bear's and camel's hair, sheep's wool' 

 badger's hair, hog's down, camlets of all colours, the 

 fur of hares, squirrels, and foxes, feathers from the neck 

 of the game-cock, called hackles ; likewise, feathers 

 from the peacock, mallard, the domestic hen, &c. 



I shall take the liberty of closing this part of my 

 subject with Thomson's just and beautiful description 

 of the cunning of an old Trout. 



Should you lure 



From his dark haunt, beneath the tangled roots 

 Of pendant trees, the monarch of the brook, 

 Behoves you then to ply your finest art : 

 Long time he, following, cautious scans the fly. 

 And oft attempts to seize it, but as oft 

 The dimpled water speaks his jealous fear : 

 At last, while haply o'er the shaded sun 

 Passes a cloud, he desperate takes the bait 

 With sullen plunge ; at once he darts along, 

 Deep struck, and runs out all the lengthen'd line, 

 Then seeks the farthest ooze, the sheltering weed, 

 The cavern'd bank, his old secure abode. 

 And flies aloft, and flounces round the pool. 

 Indignant of the guile. 



9, B 



