THE YOUNG FISHERMAN. 



PASTE BAITS. 



When working up paste baits, be particularly careful 

 to have clean hands, and knead your pastes thoroughly, 

 so that all the materials may be well incorporated. 



Sheeps' blood and saffron make a good paste for roach, 

 bleak, &c. 



Paste baits are not at all adapted for swift, running 

 streams, but for quiet brooks, ponds, or very still rivers. 



ARTIFICIAL FLIES. 



There are upwards of a 

 hundred different kinds of flies 

 suitable to this species of 

 angling, a full description of 

 the method of making each, 

 would far exceed our limits; 

 we shall, therefore, describe 

 some of the most usual only. 

 The cow -dung fly may be used 

 from the 1st of April, and will 

 kill till September. Its wing 

 should be made of a feather of the land-rail, its body of 

 yellow camlet mingled with a little fur, and its legs of 

 ginger blue. 



The violet fly is used in April ; it is made of light dun- 

 coloured bear's hair mixed with violet stuff, and winged 

 with the grey feather of a mallard. 

 * The green drake, or May fly, is, perhaps, the best that 

 can be procured for trout fishing. Its wings should be 

 made of the light feather of the grey drake, dyed lemon- 

 colour, its body of yellow- coloured mohair, neatly ribbed 

 with green silk, head of a peacock's harl, and its tail of 

 three long hairs from a sable muff. 



The yellow sally is an approved fly from the early part 

 of May to the end of June. Its body must be made of 

 yellow unravelled worsted, mixed with some fur from a 

 hare's ear, and its wings of a hackle dyed yellow. 



The purple fly is made of purple wool mixed with 

 light brown bear's hair, and dubbed with purple silk, is 

 useful during June and July. 



The red ant's wings must be made of J.li;ht feather 



