27S THE angler's guide. 



CHAP. IV. 



List of Artificial Flies, and the way to make them ; to 

 kill, from Christmas till Michaelmas, 



Red Fhj. 



This fly is much used in Wales and Herefordshire, 

 but better known there by the name of the Coch-a- 

 hondde ; it is made of a drake's feather, and the body 

 of a red hackle, and the red part of squirrel's fur -, it 

 has four wings lying flat on its back : it may be varied 

 by a black cock's hackle and silver twist. This bait is 

 taken during February, and will kill till June, from nine 

 or ten o'clock in the morning, till three in the afternoon. 



Green Peacock-Hackle. 

 The greenish herl of a peacock ; warping green silk, 

 and a black hackle over all : this fly is taken from eight 

 till eleven during March, as is the 



Ash-coloured Dun. 

 Dub with the roots of a fox cub's tail ; warp with 

 pale yellow silk ; wings of the pale part of a starling's 

 feather. This fly, which is also called the violet-dun, 

 and blue-dun, is found on most rivers : it varies much 

 in its colours, according to the season of the year. In 

 March and September, it is called the violet-dun, for it 

 has often that hue 3 in April, it assumes a pale ash- 



