306 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PARTI. 



clogs do ; that is to say, as much as a very cur and a 

 greyhound do. These be, usually, bred in the very 

 little rills, or ditches, that run into bigger rivers ; and, 

 I think, a more proper bait for those very rivers than 

 any other. I know not how, or of what, this cadis re- 

 ceives life, or what coloured fly it turns to. But, 

 doubtless, they are the death of many T routs : And 

 this is one killing way : 



Take one or more, if need be of these large yellow 

 cadis : pull off his head, and, with it, pull out his 

 black gut ; put the body, as little bruised as is possible, 

 on a very little hook, armed-on with a red hair, which 

 will shew like the cadis-head, and a very little thin 

 lead, so put upon the shank of the hook that it may 

 sink presently. Throw this bait, thus ordered which 

 will look very yellow into any great still hole where 

 a Trout is ; and he will presently venture his life for it, 

 it is not to be doubted, if you be not espied ; and [if] 

 that the bait first touch the water before the line. And 

 this will do, best in the deepest water. 



i given in Plate XIII. Fig. 1, 2, 3. This fly, upon inquiry, I find is 



called, in the North, the large light brown; in Ireland, and some other 



places, it has the name of the flame-coloured brown. And 



* Appendix, the method of making it is given in the Additional list oi 



No. 2. flies, under September * : where, frofti its smell, the reader 



will find it called the" large foetid light brown. 



This seems to be the Musca stercoraria of Swammerdam, described iff 

 his Hist. Insect. Gen. p. 139. Vide Morton's Nat. Hist, of Northampton- 

 thire, /.414. 



And there are many other kinds of these wonderful creatures; as may 

 be seen in Moas. de Reaumur's Memoires pour servir a V Histoire des In- 

 sectesy Tome III. ; froni which,- for the reader's greater satisfaction, the fi- 

 gures 7, 8, 9, 10,- in Plate XIII. are accurately delineated. [And see 

 APPENDIX, No. I.] 



It is greatly to be wished, that none .had undertaken to write on this 

 subject, of aquatic insects, but men conversant in the study of natural 

 history ; as Ray, Derham, Swammerdam, Reaumur, and others were ; 

 the consequence of which would have been, that these creatures would 

 have Had names assigned them, which would at once have charac- 

 terized them, and kept the several species distinct from each other ; 

 whereas, the several illiberal terms of cadis, cadew, cod-bait, cad-bait, 

 case-worm, and cod-worm each of which, in some places, means two 

 or three ; and, in others, all the different sorts of those creatures yet 

 known has been productive of inextricable confusion, and will, I fear, 

 oblige ua to consider their history as among the detiderata of this curiou* 



