The First Mention of Fly -Fishing. 2 1 



instead of worms, paste, gentles, and 

 gentles, paste, worms, why not try this 

 for barbel, for instance? 



"Take some good fresh cheese, lay it 

 on a board, and cut it into small square 

 pieces the size of your hook. Then take 

 a candle and burn it while on your hook 

 till it be yellow, then bind it on your 

 hook with silk." 



Toasted cheese is good both for mice 

 and men ; then why not for fishes ? It 

 has a strong appetising scent, and is a 

 clean, wholesome, pleasant bait to use. 



If my little work was intended as a 

 practical treatise on angling, I should quote 

 all the baits for all the various fish given 

 by Dame Juliana, for I am sure in the 

 course of centuries we have forgotten 

 much that might with profit be remem- 

 bered ; but I must only glance at her 

 book, and point out that she is the first to 

 mention fly-fishing,* and to give a list of 

 flies for the fishing months of the year. 

 She even notes that, among other baits 

 for the salmon, " you may also take him 

 with a fly in like form and manner as you 

 do a trout or grayling" adding, "but it 

 is seldom seen." 



* I am not unmindful of that artificial hippitrus 

 which the Macedonians used, but every writer 

 on fl\--fishing has cast that fly. 



