318 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. [part II. 



FEBRUARY. 



1. Where the Red-brown of the last month ends, 

 another, almost of the same colour, begins with this ; 

 saving, that the dubbing of this must be of some- 

 thing a blacker colour, and both of them warpt-on 

 with red silk. The dubbing that should make this 

 fly, and that is the truest colour, is to be got off 

 the black spot of a hog's ear : not that a black 

 spot in any part of the hog will not afford the same 

 colour, but that the hair in that place is by many 

 degrees, softer, and more fit for the purpose : his 

 wing must be as the other ; and this kills all this 

 month, and is called the Lesser Red-brown. 



2. This month also a Plain Hackle, or Pal- 

 mer-fly, made with a rough black body, either of 

 black spaniel's fur, or the whirl of an Estridg-fea- 

 ther, and the red hackle of a capon over all, will kill ; 

 and, if the weather be right, make very good sport. 



3. Also a Lesser Hackle with a black body also, 

 silver-twist over that, and a red feather over all, 

 will fill your pannier, if the month be open, and not 

 bound up in ice, and snow, with very good fish ; 

 but in case of a frost and snow, you are to angle 

 only with the smallest gnats, browns, and duns, 

 you can make ; and with those are only to expect 

 Graylings no bigger than sprats. 



4. In this month, upon a whirling round water, 

 we have a Great Hackle; the body black, and 



