JOB 5'i?.-BRITISH ANGLER. P. I. 



*' Thus, fays that facetious and ingenious 

 Angler, have you a Jury of Flies, likely to 

 betray and condemn all the Trouts in the 

 River." 



His general Dire6]:ions for Fly- Angling are, 

 that your Rod be light and very gentle, con- 

 fiding of feveral Pieces. Your Line, efpe- 

 cially for three or four Links next to the Hook, 

 Ihould not exceed three or four Hairs at the 

 mod, though you ought to fifh with it gradu- 

 ally flronger above, in the upper Part of your 

 Line : But when you can attain to angle with 

 one Hair, you will have more Rifes, and catch 

 more Fijh, Never encumber yourfelf with too 

 long a. Liney as moft do: And before you 

 begin to angle, obferve to have the Wind on 

 your Back, and the Stin, if it fhines, to be 

 before you, and to fifh down the Stream. 

 Carry the Point or Top of your Rod down- 

 ward, by which Means the Shadow of yourfelf 

 and Rod will be leafl ofFenfive to the Fiih, for 

 the Sight of any Shade amazes them, and fpoils 

 your Sport, of which you muft take the uf moft 

 Care. 



In the Middle of March, (before which 

 Time a Man fhould not in Honefty catch a 

 ^rout)^ or in April, if the Weather be dark, 

 or a little windy or cloudy y the befh Fifhing is 

 with the Palmer^fly, of the natural Sorts of 

 which I have already fpoken. But of thefe 

 there are alfo artificial Kinds of divers Colours. 

 The Palmer-fly and the Mayfly^ it has been 



obferved. 



