FLY FISHING. 85 



CHAP. XXL 



ARTIFICIAL FLIES. 



THERE are upwards of a hundred different 

 kinds of flies, made for fly fishing ; a selection 

 of which I shall describe, suitable for every 

 month during the season : they may be pur- 

 chased at a small expence. By using these 

 flies, and practising the art of casting or 

 throwing his fly, the young angler will sooner 

 acquire the skill of killing fish by fly fishing, 

 than by encumbering himself with a stock of 

 dubbing, hair, wool, feathers, &c. for manu- 

 facturing artificial flies, before he is master of 

 the art of throwing one. 



Some anglers fish with a fly in winter, but 

 little sport is ever met with before April^ or 

 much later than Michaelmas, unless the 

 weather is unusually mild. 



