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streams when it is clear ; or in the deeps in a 

 brisk wind; and never fear engaging with a 

 salmon, or salmon trout. 



With such alinkl fish with minnow, in streams, 

 for great tiouts, in the mornings and evenings $ 

 and at night with two great worms, in eddies, 

 deeps, still streams, &c. or in the same places 

 with artificial flies, moths, nocturnals, owl-flies, 

 &c. in streams with creeper and natural May 

 fly. In the four hot months, when the water is 

 low, and no wind^ from nine in the forenoon, till 

 four in the afternoon^ under the shade of trees, 

 or bushes, with worms, grubs, beetles, grasshop- 

 pers, wasps, bees, &c. or with the wings and 

 head dressed, and a bristle, on the back of the 

 hook, with a grub, earth-bob, twinge, &c. 



In a word, I use them for all kinds of angling, 

 where single hairs are too weak, and much 

 stronger tackle necessary. Two or three lengths 

 of these do exceedingly well, to angle with a 

 float for chub, perch or trout, under bushes, 

 and for jack or small pike, which cannot bite the 

 bristle in two, as they will hairs. 



When I angle for great fish in the deeps, in a 

 bustling wind, I generally have a drop-fly dressed 

 to a bristle, and make a loop at the other end 

 half an inch long, or no longer than just to let 

 the fly be put through it upon occasion. I find, 

 by experience, that it is better to have the drop- 

 fly with a loop to it, as small as possible, to ad- 

 mit the loop of a link to be put through it, and 

 then to make a single knot on the link, to inclose 

 the loop of the drop-fly, and keep it at a proper 

 distance from the end fly \ this way the short 



