frHE COMPLETE ANGLER. PART IT, 



3. Also a LESSER HACKLE with a black body, 

 also ; silver twist, over that ; and a red feather, over 

 all will fill your pannier (if the month be open, and 

 not bound up in ice and snow,) with very good fish : 

 but in case of a frost and snow, you are to angle only 

 with the smallest gnats, browns, and duns, you can 

 make ; and, with those, are only to expect Graylings 

 no bigger than sprats. 



4. In ihis month, upon a whirling-round water, we 

 have a GREAT HACKLE ; the body, black, and 

 wrapped with a red feather of a capon untrimmed, 

 that is, the whole length of the hackle staring out : 

 for we sometimes barb the hackle-feather, short, all 

 over ; sometimes barb it only a little ; and sometimes 

 barb it close, underneath, leaving the whole length 

 of the feather on the top, or back of the fly, which 

 makes it swim better, and> as occasion serves, kills 

 very great fish . 



6. We make use also, in this month, of" another 

 GREAT HACKLE ; the body black, and ribbed over 

 with gold-twist ; and a red feather over all : which 

 also does great execution (&). 



6. Also a GREAT DUN ; made with dun bear's 

 hair, and the wings of the grey feather of a mallard 

 near unto his tail: which is absolutely the best fly 

 can be thrown upon a river this month, and with 

 which an angler shall have admirable spurt. 



7. We have also, this month, the GREAT BLUE 

 DUN; the dubbing of the bottom of bear's hair next 

 to the roots, mixt with a little blue camlet; the wings, 

 of the dark grey feather of a mallard. 



8. We have also, this month, a DARK-BROWN ; 

 the dubbing, of the brown hair off the flank of a 

 brended cow: and the wings, of the grey drake's 

 feather. 



VARIATIONS* 



() GOLD-TWIST HACKLE; the same dubbing, warping and hackle, 

 with gold-twist. 



N. B. These baekles are taken^ chiefly, from nine to eleven in the morning^ 

 and from one to three in the afternoon* They will do for any month fa 

 the year t and upon any water. 



