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2. There is also a very little BRIGHT-DUN GNAT, 



as little as can possibly be made, so little as never to 

 be fished-with with above one hair next the hook ; 

 and this is to be made, of a mixt dubbing of marten's 

 fur, and the white of a hare's scut, with a very white 

 and small wing. And it is no great matter how fine 

 you fish : for nothing will rise in this month but a 

 Grayling ; and of them I never, at this season, saw 

 any taken with a fly of above a foot long, in my 

 life. But of little ones about the bigness of a smelt- 

 in a warm day, and a glowing sun you may take 

 enough, with these two flies ; and they are both taken, 

 the whole month through. 



FEBRUARY. 



1. Where the RED-BROWN of the last month ends, 

 ANOTHER, almost of the same colour, begins : with 

 this saving, that the dubbing of this must be of, some 

 thing, a blacker colour; and both of them warpt-on 

 with red silk. The dubbing, that should make this fly 

 and that is the truest colour, is to be g0t off the black 

 spot of a hog's ear : not that a black spot in any part 

 of the hog will not afford the same colour; but that 

 the hair in that place is, by many degrees, softer, and 

 more fit for the purpose. His wing must be as th 

 other [No. 1, in January,] and this kills all this 

 month ; and is called the LESSER RED-BROWN. 



2. This month, also a PLAIN HACKLE (a), or -pal- 

 mer-fly made, with a rough black body, either of 

 black spaniel's fur, or the whirl of an ostrich feather ; 

 and the red hackle of a capon, over all will kill, and 

 if the weather be right, make very good sport. 



VARIATIONS. 



(a) The author is now in the month of February ; during which, are 

 taken, the 



PLAIN HACKLE; which we would recommend to be made of black 

 ostrich herl warped and tied down, to the dubbing with red silk : and * 

 red cock's hackle, over all, 



