300 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part II. 



better twisted, or open. And for that, T should 

 declare that 1 think the open way the better, be- 

 cause it makes less shew in the water ; but that I 

 have found an inconvenience, or two, or three, that 

 have made me almost weary of that way : of which 

 one is, that, without dispute, they are not so strong 

 open as twisted ; another, that they are not easily 

 to be fastened of so exact an equal length in the 

 arming, that the one will not cause the other to 

 bag, by which means a man has but one hair, upon 

 the matter, to trust to ; and the last is, that these 

 loose flying hairs are not only more apt to catch 

 upon every twig or bent, they meet with, but more- 

 over the hook, in falling upon the water, will very 

 often rebound, and fly back betwixt the hairs, and 

 there stick, (which, in a rough water especially, is 

 not presently to be discerned by the Angler) so as 

 the point of the hook shall stand reversed ; bv which 

 means vour fly swims backwards, makes a much 

 greater circle in the water, and, till taken home to 

 you and set right, will never raise any fish ; or, if 

 it should, I am sure, but by a very extraordinary 

 chance, can hit none. 



Having done with both these ways of fishing at 

 the top, the length of your rod, and line and all, 

 I am next to teach you How to make a Fly ; and 

 afterwards, of what dubbing you are to make the 

 several flies I shall hereafter name to you. 



In making a fly then, which is not a Hackle, or 

 Palmer-fly, (for of those, and their several kinds, 



