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line may meet with little or no obstruction 

 in passing through them. By taking advan- 

 tage of the wind, you may make your fly fall 

 floatingly at a very great distance from you, 

 indeed, with a little address, you may direct it 

 whithersoever you please. The greatest care 

 must be taken to preserve the floss-line from 

 touching the water, or from imbibing any 

 humidity. We never dibble with any other 

 sort of line, and we invariably use but one 

 hook, and but one fly at a time. 



With respect to the stone-fly, Cotton's 

 instructions are so correct, that we will limit 

 ourselves to citing them. He says, "This 

 stone-fly then we dape or dibble with, as with 

 the drake, but with this difference, that, 

 whereas the green-drake is common both to 

 stream and still, and to all hours of the day ; 

 we seldom dape with this, but in the streams, 

 (for in a whistling wind a made-fly, in the 

 deep, is better) and rarely but early and late, 

 it not being so proper for the mid-time of the 

 day ; though a great grayling will then take it 

 very well in a sharp stream, and here and 

 there a trout too; but much better toward 

 eight, nine, ten, or eleven of the clock at 

 night, at which time also the best fish rise, 

 and the later the better, provided you can see 

 your fly; and when you cannot, a made-fly 



