The North Country Angler. 47 



a row, watching for such food as it brings down 

 to them. They turn yellow before they leave 

 the husk, and are an excellent bait for most sorts 

 of fish, either by itself on a bristled hook or 

 with a head and wings. 



The whirling dun, or cod~bait fly, I dress for 

 large fish, a third or more larger than the life. 

 The body of the down of a iox-cub, or bear's or 

 camel's hair, and half as much swine's down 

 dyed yellow ; or you may have swine's down ex- 

 actly bf the colour. The wing, a wild drake's 

 feather, dyed yellow, pretty large, and to stand 

 up on the back of the fly* I dress a hackle to 

 imitate this fly, of the woodcock's feather, wrapt 

 six or seven times round for the wings, and the 

 same dubbing for the body. These two large 

 flies come in season the latter end of May, and 

 continue till the middle of June; sometimes the 

 green drake will be the more early fly, and in 

 some places the other. 



B it there is another fly much larger than these 

 two, which makes her appearance about the mid- 

 dle of May, and continues till the middle of 

 June. It is called in some places the stone fly, 

 and the trout fly, and every where the May fly. 

 It is bred much in the same manner as the cod- 

 bait fly 5 only the whirling dun fixes her eggs to 

 the stone, and the May-fly lays hers among the 

 sand, under a stone; the first is bred in little 

 becks or burns, the other in rivers. The eruca 

 of the first is a ccd-bait ; the eruca of the other 

 is the creeper or water cricket, of which I shall 

 here give my reader a full account. 



