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the fancy of the angler may suggest. The first- 

 named fly is in great repute in Hampshire and 

 many other districts. It appears to us misnamed, 

 in one sense, having often proved it to be quite the 

 reverse of a driver. We will only add of evening 

 fishing, that it is not advisable to fish over a great 

 deal of ground. When the fish are found to be 

 in rising humour, we recommend the angler to 

 get' possession of a good deep stickle, with a still 

 range above or below it, and to charitably advise 

 any brother piscator who may be disposed to 

 spend his time in roving about from stickle to 

 stickle, to cease his wanderings and to station 

 himself, as soon as possible, in a similar situation. 

 When trout are not to be had in summer 

 evenings, a capital secondary sport may be found 

 in Dace Fishing, which indeed forms an excellent 

 school in which to get initiated into the mysteries 

 of trouting. Small dark colour flies should be 

 used, a little black gnat with a gold tag is as 

 good as anything. This fly is made simply with 

 a turn or two of flat gold wire at the bottom, for 

 the tag, the rest of the body of black ostrich 

 herl, and a wing from a wing feather of the 

 starling. Hook, No. 1. or 0. Use two of these* 

 on a fine collar, and, on a quiet evening at sun- 



