CHAP. VII. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 425 



1. We have, besides, for this month a little Dun 

 called a WHIRLING DUN (c)- 9 though it is not the 



ends of the silk. Thus you will have made a bait that will catch Trout of 

 the largest 'size, in any water in England. 



And lest the method of fastening off, which occurs so often in this kind 

 of work, should not appear sufficiently intelligible, the reader will see it 

 represented Fig. 9. Plate XII. 



It is true, the method above described will require some variation in 

 the case of gold-and-silver-twist palmers ; in the making whereof, the 

 management of the twist is to be considered as another operation: but this 

 variation will suggest itself to every reader, as will also the method of 

 making those flies, contained in the notes, that have hackle under the 

 wings ; which, else, we should have added to Cotton's directions for mak- 

 ing a fly, which he gives Viator iu the fishing-house. See page 407 of thi* 

 second Part. 



VARIATIONS. 



fe) GREAT WHIRLING DUN. Dub with fox cub or squirrel's fur, 

 well mixed with about a sixth part of the finest hog's-wool : warp with 

 pale-orange wings, very large, taken from the quill-feather of a ruddy 

 hen: the head to be fastened with ash-colour silk: a red cock's hackle, at 

 full length, may be wrapped under the wings, and, a turn or two lower, 

 towards the tail. 



Tins is a killing fly ; and is to be seen rising out of the sedges in most Trout 

 rivers, late in the evening^ seldom before sun-set, and continues on the water 

 till midnight, or after. It is found most of tie -warm months ; but tills cbiejly 

 in a blustering 'warm evening from the middle of May to the end of July. 



The directions of Mr. Cotton for making flies are to be considered as 

 the very basis and foundation of that art, no author before him having 

 ever treated the subject so copiously and accurately as he has done: what 

 improvements have been made since his time, have been handed about in 

 manuscript lists, but have hardly ever been communicated to the publick. 



A reverend, worthy, and ingenious friend of mine ; a lover of angling, 

 who has practised that and the art of fly-making these thirty years, and 

 is the gentleman mentioned in the note, Page 304 ; has generously com- 

 municated to me the result of his many years' experience, in a list of a 

 great number of flies, not mentioned by Cotton, with some variations in 

 the manner of making those described in the text. And as to these devia- 

 tions, it is hoped they will be considered as improvements ; since I ant 

 authorized to say, that the above gentleman has, in the making of flies, 

 made it a constant rule to follow nature. 



Part of this list is, for very obvious reasons, wrought into the form of 

 notes on that of Mr. Cotton; and the rest with another very valuable 

 Catalogue, composed by a north-country angler, and communicated to me 

 by the same gentleman make No. II. and JII. of the APPENDIX to this 

 Volume. 



The reader will, there, also find No. IV.; a List of Flies formerly pub- 

 lished in the Angler's Vade Mecum, so often referred to in the course of this 

 work; and though the flies therein contained are said to be, chiefly, of use 

 in stt.ney [rivers,] I have tried some of them, especially the duns in othei 

 fivers, and found them to be excellent. 



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