CHAP. V. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 183 



And let me again tell you, That you keep as far from 

 the water as you can possibly, whether you fish with a' 

 fly or worm ; and fish down the stream. And when 

 you fish with a fly, if it be possible, let no p;>rt of 

 your line touch the water*, but your fly only ; and be 

 still moving your fly upon the water, or casting it into 

 the water, you yourself being also always moving down 

 the stream. 



Mr. Barker commends several sorts of the palmer- 

 flies ; not only those ribbed with silver and gold, but 

 others that have their bodies all made of black ; or, some 

 with red, and a red hackle. You may also make the 

 HAWTHORN-FLY : which is all black, and not big, 

 but very small, the smaller the better. Or the oak- fly t 3 

 the body of which is orange colour and f see the pre- 

 black crewel, with a brown wing. Or a ceding page. 

 fly made with a peacock's feather, is excellent in a 

 bright dayj : You must be sure you want not in your 



mallard's feather. Bowlker, in his Art of Angling, p, 63, says, " The 

 " body may be made of a bittern's feather, and the wings of the feather, 

 " of a woodcock's wing," These supplementary directions, inserted by Sir 

 John Haivkins in a note tiuo pages infra, the Editor has transposed, as relevant 

 to this part of the text. 



* This is impossible, unless you dib with the artificial as with the na- 

 tural fly, wbich is never practised. The Method of throwing or casting is 

 more particularly treated of, in the notes on Chap. V. Part II, 



J A brother of the angle must, always, be sped 

 IVith three black palmers, and also tivo red ; 

 And, all, made ivith hackles. In a cloudy day. 

 Or in ivindy weather, angle you may : 



But morning and evening, if the day be bright ; 

 And the chief point of all is to keep out of sight. 

 *< In the month of May, none but the May-fly, 

 ** For every month, one /" is a pitiful lye* 



The black HAWTHORN-FLY must be very small ; 

 And the sandy bog' 's hair is, sure, best of all 

 (For the mallard-iving May-Jty, and peacock' 1 s train, 

 Will look like thefiesh-fyj to kill Trent amain. 



The OAK-FLY is good, if it have a brown "wing. 

 So is the grasshopper, that in July doth sing ; 

 With a green body make him, on a middle-six, 'd hook. 

 Btit when you havt catchtjish, then play the good fook. 



