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THE RED ANT PLY. Body, peacock's herl, made full at the 

 tail, and spare towards the head, red or ginger cock's hackle 

 wings, the light feather of the starling's wing. Hook, Nos. 9 

 and 10. 



THE LAND FLY. Body, the fur from the hare's neck, twisted ' 

 round with silk of the same colour ; legs, a ginger hen's hackle ; 

 wings, the feather from a landrail's wing. Hook, No. 9. 

 m THE ALDER FLY. Body, Peacock's herl, tied with dark brown 

 silk; legs, cock's hackle; wings, the brown speckled feather of a 

 mallard's back. Hook, No. 8. 



THE GREENDRAKE ELY. Body, yellow gloss silk, ribbed with 

 brown silk; the extreme head and tail coppery peacock's herl; 

 legs, a red and ginger hackle; wings, the mottled -wing of a 

 mallard stained olive; tail, three hairs of a rabbit's whiskers. 

 Hook, No. 6. 



THE GREY DRAKE. Body, ^ white fios silk^ ribbed with dark 

 brown or mulberry-coloured silk; head and tip of the tail pea- 

 cock's herl; legs, a grizzled COCK'S hackle- wings, a mallard's 

 mottled feather made to stand upright ; tail, three whiskers of a 

 rabbit. Hook, Nos. 6 and 7. 



THE GOVERNOR ELY. Body, coppery-coloured peacock's herl, 

 ribbed with gold twist ; legs, red or ginger hackle ; legs, the light 

 part of a pheasant's wing. Hook, No. 9. 



THE COACHMAN ELY. Body, copper -coloured cock's herl; 

 legs, red hackle ; wings, the light feathers of the landrail. Hook, 

 No. 8. 



Cow-DuN& ELY. Body, dun lemon-coloured mohair ; legs, red 

 hackle ; wings, a feather of the landrail or starling's wing. Hook, 

 Nos. 8 and 9. 



TROLLING FOR TROUT. 



This mode of trout-fishing has become very common in Great 

 Britain within these thirty years, and is a very successful one, 

 particularly in the spring of the year, and in most rivers after a 

 summer flood. ^Trolnng, however, has long lain under a species of 

 reproach, ^ as being of a poking, poaching, interloping character; 

 and on this account it is, in some districts of England, strictly pro- 

 hibited. This stigma is not a modern thing it is mentioned in 

 angling satirical songs 250 years ago ; and in one poetical piece, 

 which we shall here insert, by Llewellyn, in his " Men Miracles " 

 (1646), we find trolling is severely handled, along with other unfair 

 modes of fishing : 



"You that fish for dace and roches, 

 Carpes and tenches, bonus noehes, 

 Thou wast borne betweene two dishes, 

 When the Eryday signe was fishes. 



