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darker than his body, and longer than it, though he 

 makes but little use of them ; for you shall rarely see 

 him flying, though often swimming and paddling with 

 several feet he has under his belly, upon the water, 

 "without stirring a wing. But the Drake will mount 

 steeple-height into the air : though he, is to be found 

 upon flags and grass, too, and indeed every where, 

 high and low, near the river ; there being so many of 

 them, in their season, as were they not a very inoffen- 

 sive insect, would look like a plague : and these drakes 

 (since I forgot to tell you before, I will tell you here) 

 are taken by the fish to that incredible degree, that 

 upon a calm day, you shall see the still deeps, con- 

 tinually, all over circles by the fishes' rising, who 

 will gorge themselves with those flies, till they purge 

 again out of their gills* j and the Trouts are, at that 

 time, so lusty and strong, that one of eight or ten 

 inches long, will then more struggle and tug, and 

 more endanger your tackle, than one twice as big in 

 winter : but pardon this digression. 



This Stone -fly, then, we dape or dibble with, as 

 with the Drake : but with this difference, that whereas 

 the Green-Drake is common both to stream and still, 

 and to all hours of the day ; we seldom dape with 

 this but in the streams, (for in a whistling wind, a 

 made-fly, in the deep, is better,) and, rarely, but 

 early and late, it not being so proper for the mid-time 

 of the day: though a great Grayling will, then, take 

 it very well in a sharp stream and, here and there, 

 a Trout too but much better towards eight, nine, ten, 

 or eleven of the clock at night, at which time also the 

 best fish rise, and the later the better, provided you 

 can see your fly ; and when you cannot, a made-fly will 

 murder, which is to be made thus : the dubbing, of 

 bear's dun with a little brown and yellow camlet very 

 well mixed ; but so placed that your fly may be more 



* I have caught a Trout so full of them that in taking liim off the 

 hook, I huve prest, oat of his throat, a lump of them as big as a 

 walnut. 



