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will murder." We know of no better night-fly, 

 when the sky is clear, than the stone-fly, par- 

 ticularly in streams. 



The oak-fly is chiefly found in May and 

 early in June, and not unfrequently in calm, 

 hot days in July, with its head downwards 

 (it is called the down-hill-fly) on the shady 

 side of the trunks of oak trees, and other 

 large trees growing near the river's side. It 

 is, in those months, a good fly to dibble with. 



When dibbing with the March-brown, two 

 flies should be used as a bait at the same time. 

 If abundance of those flies are on the river, 

 trout and grayling will rise at them with great 

 avidity, and if they refuse the artificial fly, 

 which they seldom do when it is properly 

 made, dibbing with the natural fly will be 

 certainly successful. 



The house or window fly is a very killing 

 fly to dib with, particularly towards the evening 

 in the latter end of May and the beginning of 

 June. It should be used at all times that the 

 fish, gorged with the green-drake, at last 

 through sheer surfeit refuse to take the lat- 

 ter fly. 



It would repay any person, who has the 

 slightest curiosity, for the trouble and expense 

 of a long journey to come into Derbyshire 

 during the drake- season. We have seldom 



