52 2^e North Country Angler. 



the sand and gravel will soon cover them ; here 

 they grow till the spring, creeping and feeding 

 among the gravel and under stones, till they 

 change their larva, and become flies. 



This fly is not so easily dressed as the green 

 drake or whirling dun, the belly being much 

 yellower thajn the back. Tho' Mr. Cotton mis- 

 takes this fly, and supposes it to be bred of the 

 codbait, and calls it the stone fly; yet his de- 

 scription of it is exactly just, and his materials for 

 dressing it may do ; yet, I think, either bright 

 bear's dun, or camel's hair, with soft swine's 

 down, dyed yellow, or yellow camblet^ will do 

 it better ; and some of this dubbing must have 

 more yellow in it, and be laid artfully on the 

 under-side of the fly, as you wrap on the other ; 

 the wings must be longer than the body; and of 

 the dark mottled drake's feather, or of one dyed 

 a dark brown ; the hairs at its head and tail are 

 easily imitated. 



I have dressedthis fly twice as big as the natural 

 fly, and fish'd for salmon trouts in a great wind, 

 and have killed very large fish. 



The wing feather of a pheasant will do for this 

 fly, the whirling dun, the oak fly, the cinnamon 

 coloured fly, and some other large ones, palmers, 

 &c. 



