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tail : the wings are made of the wings of a brown 

 capon, with his blue feathers in his head. The 

 seventh is the sad yellow-fly in June : the body is 

 made of black wool, with a yellow list on either 

 side ; and the wings taken off the wings of a 

 buzzard, bound with black braked hemp. The 

 eighth is the moorish-fly ; made, with the body, of 

 duskish wool ; and the wings made of the blackish 

 mail of the drake. The ninth is the tawny-fly, 

 good until the middle of June : the body made of 

 tawny wool ; the wings made contrary one against 

 the other, made of the whitish mail of the wild 

 drake. The tenth is the wasp-fly in July ; the 

 body made of black wool, lapt about with yellow 

 silk ; the wings made of the feathers of the drake, 

 or of the buzzard. The eleventh is the shell-fly, 

 good in mid-July: the body made of greenish 

 wool, lapt about with the herle of a peacock's tail : 

 and the wings made of the wings of the buzzard. 

 The twelfth is the dark drake-fly, good in August : 

 the body made with black wool, lapt about with 

 black silk ; his wings are made with the mail of the 

 black drake, with a black head. Thus have you a 

 jury of flies, likely to betray and condemn all the 

 Trouts in the river. 



I shall next give you some other directions for fly- 

 fishing, such as are given by Mr. Thomas Barker, 

 a gentleman that hath spent much time in fishing : 

 but I shall do it with a little variation. 



First, let your rod be light, and very gentle : I 

 take the best to be of two pieces. And let not 

 your line exceed, especially for three or four links 

 next to the hook, I say, not exceed three or four 

 hairs at the most ; though you may fish a little 

 stronger above, in the upper part of your line : but 

 if you can attain to angle with one hair, you shall 

 have more rises, and catch more fish. Now you 



