314 THE COMPLETE ANGLER 





3. We have also a HACKLE with a purple body, whipt 

 about with a red capon's feather. 



4. As also a GOLD-TWIST HACKLE with a purple body, 

 whipt about with a red capon's feather. 



5. To these we have this month a FLESH-FLY, the 

 dubbing of a black spaniel's fur, and blue wool mixed, 

 and a gray wing. 



6. Also another little flesh-fly, the body made of the 

 whirl of a peacock's feather, and the wings of the gray 

 feather of a drake. 



7. We have then the PEACOCK-FLY, the body and wing 

 both made of the feather of that bird. 



8. There is also the flying-ant or ANT-FLY, the dubbing 

 of brown and red camlet mixed, with a light gray wing. 



9. We have likewise a BROWN GNAT, with a very 

 slender body of brown and violet camlet well mixed, and 

 a light gray wing. 



10. And another little BLACK GNAT, the dubbing of 

 black mohair, and a white gray wing. 



11. As also a GREEN GRASSHOPPER; the dubbing of 

 green and yellow wool mixed, ribbed over with green silk, 

 and a red capon's feather over all. 



12. And, lastly, a little DUN GRASSHOPPER ; the body 

 slender, made of a dun camlet and a dun hackle at the 

 top. 



[Nearly all the flies I have described for May will kill 

 in June, for which the three following are appropriate : 



No. 1. DARK MACKEREL. Wings, dark-brown mottled 

 mallard feather ; body, deep mulberry-coloured floss 

 silk, ribbed with gold tinsel; legs, purple hackle; tail, 

 three black rabbit's whiskers. Hooks, 9 and 10. 



No. 2. ORL-FLY. Wings, reddest fibres of landrail, to 

 lie flat and long ; body, an alternate ribbing of dark 

 brown and orange mohair ; horns, two brown hackle 

 fibres. Hooks, 8 and 9. 



No. 3. Wings and legs, a very small dun hackle, wound 

 over a body made of a mixture of blue-dun and orange- 



